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[-] aebrer@kbin.social 35 points 1 year ago

Seems like while on average a human can be expected to "naturally" throw better than a monkey, most monkeys are perfectly capable of learning to throw with skill comparable to a human.

Sources:

  1. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0028393200000567
  2. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20140225-human-vs-animal-who-throws-best (actually a great read)
[-] blazera@kbin.social -4 points 1 year ago

did you read your sources? "The researchers found no evidence for “aimed throwing."

[-] aebrer@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago

I'm not sure how you're getting that impression. The quote you put there doesn't show up in the paper even once, and in fact if you search for "aimed throwing" you'll see several instances where they discuss the aimed throwing accuracy of the monkeys. Even in just the abstract there's a few places where they make it clear the monkeys are aiming (and additionally that's what they were measuring).

For both species we found positive correlations between target distances for throwing accuracy, direction and strength of hand preference, percentage of bipedal vs tripedal throws, and percentage of overarm vs underarm throws.

In fact, they go so far as to clearly state that the monkey throwing is a suitable model of human throwing, meaning that the way they throw is similar enough to us that we can actually learn about ourselves from it.

We believe that the capuchin monkey is an informative nonhuman primate model of aimed throwing in humans and that research examining the throwing behavior of capuchins provides insight into the neurological and behavioral characteristics that underlie coordinated multi-joint movements across the primate order.

Anyway, that's all the time I'm gonna spend on this mythbusting lol.

[-] piskertariot@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I made a humourous claim that seemed logical, and when some goof decided to claim I'm wrong, you swooped in with facts.

You're my favourite.

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