Chimpfluencers Stick Grass in Their Ears and Butts in Latest Viral Trend

27 pointsposted 7 months ago
by dxs
(sciencealert.com)

11 Comments

aaronbrethorst

7 months ago

this reminds me of the viral endangered teen Hawaiian monk seal challenge: stick an eel up your nose. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/dec/06/hawaiian-mon...

pcthrowaway

7 months ago

Also Orcas wearing fish hats: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salmon_hat

gs17

7 months ago

> One hypothesis is that orcas wear salmon hats to display high food availability, or that the same individuals that originally started the trend revitalized it.

Just like humans, 80s nostalgia is going strong.

Obscurity4340

7 months ago

> "Yet, when selection pressures relax (e.g., due to systematic provisioning in captive care), chimpanzees may extend their social learning occasionally to behaviors without direct instrumental utility."

Its expensive and time-sucking to be poor

kelseyfrog

7 months ago

The chimpfluencer market is severely limited. We SWOT-ed it in 2022 and found the biggest weakness we uncovered was the lack of financial fluency in the sector.

bitwize

7 months ago

Ah, the old "Ass Grass" Challenge.