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Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frans_de_Waal#Awards
TIL that Frans de Waal won an Ig Noble Prize for discovering that chimpanzees can identify other chimpanzees individually by seeing photographs of their anogenital regions
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Is that kinda like “I know an asshole when I see one”?
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I used a picture of my anogenital region for my Driver’s License…
Naw… science is filled with a bunch of freaks lol
How is “I wonder, if I take pictures of chimp assholes, will other chimps know who it is?” ever a question???
To be fair Donkey Dong Doug was kind of a freebie.
Makes sense. If clothing wasn’t a thing I’m pretty sure humans would be totally face-blind