This is sooooo cool! I'm so excited to hear that this level of interaction
is being undertaken and talked about by someone the world loves so much.
Peter Gabriel's known about it, but he's not a teller and people don't like
him as much... It's about time people started really thinking about how
intelligent some of the other animals are! A Paul McCartney video is a good
place to start the meme spread! Viva la revolucion!
<I saw Jane Goodall crying on National Geographic a few weeks ago and it
broke my heart.>
story follows:
----- Original Message -----
From: <David_Neal@vnu.co.uk>
To: <monkeywire@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 8:08 AM
Subject: [monkeywire] Paul McCartney jams with apes
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16:10
> ---------------------------
> David Neal
> 20/06/2002 16:03
>
> To: monkeywire@lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: monkey news from Ananova
>
http://www.ananova.com/entertainment/story/sm_611648.html?menu=entertainment
.showbizquirkies
>
> Paul McCartney jams with apes
>
> Paul McCartney spent four hours playing music with apes at a research lab.
>
> The bonobos played along to Eleanor Rigby and a new song he wrote for
them.
>
> Macca visited the Language Research Facility in Atlanta after being told
about
> it by Peter Gabriel.
>
> He told The Sun: "The fact they could recognise and understand 800 words
was
> pretty astounding and we found ourselves actually communicating with them
> easily.
>
> "We played some music - the male ape and I jammed a little and his sister
joined
> in with us.
>
> "He played keyboards and she played drums. It was wild."
>
> The visit was filmed for possible inclusion on the DVD of McCartney's
latest
> album Driving Rain.
>
> He is also reported to be planning a UK tour later this year.
>
> Story filed: 08:21 Thursday 20th June 2002
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