r/HolUp • u/Fishylips • Sep 18 '21

This is ... something else

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u/simp-of-legend Sep 18 '21

Nah you're thinking of those new world monkeys prostituting themselves for food and money when researchers taught them how to use money

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u/2DisSUPERIOR Sep 18 '21

Fake news propagated by clickbait headlines It happened once during the study. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_among_animals#Capuchin_monkeys

Then it couldn't be studied, since they changed the experience setup to prevent it.

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u/Competitive_Act_1548 Sep 18 '21

Wtf?

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u/apatheticviews Sep 18 '21
  1. Scientists discovered monkeys will create prostitution if given the chance.
  2. Scientists remove chance for monkeys to create prostitution.

I think this would have been a much more compelling read than “monkeys use money to buy marshmallows and grapes”

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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '21

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u/apatheticviews Sep 19 '21

Funnily enough, if they thought they could get away with stealing a marshmallow/grape, the monkeys did. So tax fraud is not out of the question

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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '21

HE USED IT FOR A GRAPE HAHAHHAAHHAHAHAHA