{"id":15,"date":"2006-06-10T08:57:52","date_gmt":"2006-06-10T12:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/?p=15"},"modified":"2006-06-10T08:57:52","modified_gmt":"2006-06-10T12:57:52","slug":"15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/10\/15\/","title":{"rendered":"Descartes Award #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Descartes.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Descartes.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/calvin.st-andrews.ac.uk\/external_relations\/news_article.cfm?reference=943\">Scientists<\/a> at the University of S. Andrews in Fife, Scotland studying in Nigeria found that putty-nosed monkeys &#8220;share the uniquely human ability to string utterances together to convey messages.&#8221; Primate psychologists identified two call types &#8211; &#8220;pyows&#8221; and &#8220;hacks&#8221; &#8211; which the monkeys use to alert each other to danger. The <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/4992598.stm\">BBC<\/a> reported that a &#8220;string of pyows&#8221; warned of a nearby leopards while a &#8220;burst of hacks&#8221; warned of a hovering eagle. <\/p>\n<p>Said one putty-nosed monkey, &#8220;If Descartes had visited us in the jungle we would have pronounced our &#8216;pyows&#8217; and &#8216;hacks&#8217; s-l-o-w-l-y and c-l-e-a-r-l-y to help him understand us.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at the University of S. Andrews in Fife, Scotland studying in Nigeria found that putty-nosed monkeys &#8220;share the uniquely human ability to string utterances together to convey messages.&#8221; Primate psychologists identified two call types &#8211; &#8220;pyows&#8221; and &#8220;hacks&#8221; &#8211; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/10\/15\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moaning","tag-descartes-award"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}