Chimpanzees Choose Their Friends!

So, Ben, do you like movies?

Yeah, I love movies

Like, uh, Point Break!

Yeah, and Top Gun!

And Lethal Weapon 4!

And You've Got Mail!

What?

Today, we are lucky to have Ben Bowlin

From Brain Stuff

Over to discuss friendship

Chimpanzee friendship to be exact

A recent study from the University

of Vienna Austria

And the University of

Zurich, Switzerland

Has found that Chimpanzees

Form their friendship

Based on similar personalities

Yeah just like how we tend

To gravitate towards people

With like-minded interests

So do chimpanzees

Uh, for instance

Like, Alex, be both get along

Because we like the same movies

And chimps tend to get along

With other chimps

Who are either just as outgoing

Or just as introverted as themselves

Biologists Yorg Mason

And Sonia Kosky

Observed that chimpanzees

Tend to sit in body contact

With other chimpanzees of the similar

Personality types

So, what does this say about us?

It's a great question

Because we have to be careful not to

Read too much into this

But then again, humans and chimpanzees

Are pretty closely related

So in a way, it's not surprising

That a lot of your friends will tend to

Be in the same sort of things

Whether you're a person or a chimp

Alright, Ben, well thanks for stopping by

Um, I've got to go see that movie

Uh, Gravity!

Yeah, I heard it's showing at 7 pm

We got to go

Yeah! Do di do di do di do

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