時差N小時:干凈的東西更美味?(上)

I heard the story about how one monkey on an islandfigured out how to wash his food, and then othermonkeys starting doing it too. That’s the true storyof Imo the macaque monkey! In 1952 on the islandof Koshima, a primatologist was leaving sweetpotatoes on the shore for the monkeys to eat. Onesmart monkey, a one and a half year old namedImo, began washing the sand off her potatoes in abrook. You can imagine how much better thisinsight on her part made the potatoes taste! Next,Imo’s playmate was observed washing potatoes.Then her mother, then another peer. In four years, three more of her relatives and fourmembers of another macaque group were washing their food. The primatologist realized he waswatching the way new ideas spread in society!

我聽到的故事，一個小島上的猴子想出如何洗他的食物，然后其它的猴子也開始洗食物。這是Imo真實(shí)的故事! 1952年在Koshima小傷傷，一個靈長類動物學(xué)家把一些紅薯放在岸邊讓猴子吃。一只聰明的猴子，一歲半的伊莫，開始在小溪中洗去紅薯上的傻子。你能想象如何這回它吃紅薯時的感覺更好吃的吃相!接下來，Imo的玩伴也被觀察到洗土豆。然后，是她的母親，然后是其同輩。在四年中，她的3個親戚和另一獼猴群落的四名成員也開始清洗物。靈長類動物學(xué)家意識到他觀察到的正是新方法在猴群社會中的傳播方式!