{"id":749574,"date":"2017-12-15T14:09:05","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T14:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=749574"},"modified":"2017-12-15T14:09:05","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T14:09:05","slug":"what-grosses-out-a-chimpanzee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=749574","title":{"rendered":"What grosses out a chimpanzee?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>PHYS.ORG:<\/strong> <em>\u2018In a new study published in Royal Society Open Science, researchers found evidence that exposure to biological contaminants\u2014ie feces, blood, semen \u2014 via vision, smell, and touch, influences feeding choices even in chimpanzees\u2026 Chimpanzees spontaneously react just like humans when blindly touching soft and moist substrates, which incidentally are expected to be rich in biological contaminants compared to hard and dry substances\u2026 \u201cThese experiments hint at the origins of disgust in humans, and help us better understand the protective function of this emotion\u201d concludes Cecile Sarabian, the lead author of the study\u2026 \u201cWe are currently in the process of expanding our \u2018disgusting\u2019 work to include other primate and non-primate species\u201d.\u2019<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2017-11-grosses-chimpanzee.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>SOURCE\u2026<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fHQtksXplsc\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PHYS.ORG: \u2018In a new study published in Royal Society Open Science, researchers found evidence that exposure to biological contaminants\u2014ie feces, blood, semen \u2014 via vision, smell, and touch, influences feeding choices even in chimpanzees\u2026 Chimpanzees spontaneously react just like humans when blindly touching soft and moist substrates, which incidentally are expected to be rich in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":749575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[33,36],"class_list":["post-749574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kisnship","tag-intelligence","tag-sentience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=749574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":749576,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749574\/revisions\/749576"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/749575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=749574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=749574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=749574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}