Apes can apparently understand “that someone else may have false beliefs.”
They would go crazy at a Trump rally.
Once again we see that other species have the capacity for levels of
understanding that we once only attributed to humans.
An international study found that
chimpanzees, bonobos and orangutans seem to have this ability, even when they
know that point of view is dead wrong. It’s called theory of mind, or the
ability to know that others have different beliefs and perspectives.
"Apes have some understanding of others’
actions and can predict others’ actions even when those individual are acting
on misinformation,” said Krupinye, who conducted psychological research at Duke
University and is now at the Max Planck Institute in Germany. “This kind of
skill is central to a lot of sophisticated human behavior that we use in
cooperative context and culture and communications.”
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