Word: chimp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professor Hooton suggested the Society establish a central record bureau to place anthropological data forms in the hands of every member. He also got in a plug for one family of apes he has always respected--the chimp. "They're the closest to man--shove the chimpanzee in almost any situation among men and he wouldn't stick out--except perhaps favorably...
...Healy, the actor who adopted a chimpanzee and a pygmy "with a head like an inverted ice-cream cone" and would never explain the chimp other than by saying solemnly...
This low finance was as high as Trader got, but chimpanzees can master a subtler money economy. At Yale's Laboratories of Primate Biology, Dr. John Wolfe confronted six young and impressionable chimpanzees with a "chimp-o-mat," a slot machine which passed out a grape when fed a white poker chip. The chimps learned quickly how to operate the contraption. They also learned that poker chips were things of value, to be cherished and scuffled...
Then Dr. Wolfe showed his chimps the seamy side of money: work. He put in their quarters a "work-machine" with a heavy handle. When a chimp hoisted the handle, he got a poker chip (convertible into one grape). Some of the chimps went into a frenzy of work and accumulation, heaping up capital and guarding it savagely. One earned 185 power-chip coins in a single ten-minute session...
...When the chimps were thoroughly accustomed to working for money, Dr. Wolfe made the currency more complicated. Blue chips dropped into the chimp-o-mat yielded two grapes instead of one. A red chip was worth a drink of water. The chimps soon mastered this system...