like tiny furry humans
by John at 6/06/2005 01:19:00 PM
Keith Chen and Laurie Santos, two researchers at Yale, have been spending their time teaching capuchin monkeys how to use money.
I started to exerpt key pieces from the NYT Magazine article by the authors of Freakonomics, but pretty soon I found I was copying the whole thing bit-by-bit (like in school, when you end up highlighting the entire page). You should definitely read it! We are talking about saving, shopping, gambling, stealing, whoring monkeys here. Hilarious.
I'll just copy my very favorite part:
"You should really think of a capuchin as a bottomless stomach of want," Chen says. "You can feed them marshmallows all day, they'll throw up and then come back for more."
Just like tiny furry humans indeed!
You can find more information on the monkeys at the Freakonomics website and at Chen's website.
Update: I forgot that the NYT requires registration. Use user mailinator, password mailinator to get in if you haven't already registered.
I started to exerpt key pieces from the NYT Magazine article by the authors of Freakonomics, but pretty soon I found I was copying the whole thing bit-by-bit (like in school, when you end up highlighting the entire page). You should definitely read it! We are talking about saving, shopping, gambling, stealing, whoring monkeys here. Hilarious.
I'll just copy my very favorite part:
"You should really think of a capuchin as a bottomless stomach of want," Chen says. "You can feed them marshmallows all day, they'll throw up and then come back for more."
Just like tiny furry humans indeed!
You can find more information on the monkeys at the Freakonomics website and at Chen's website.
Update: I forgot that the NYT requires registration. Use user mailinator, password mailinator to get in if you haven't already registered.
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