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Baboons detect bogus words

 Can baboons read? Absolutely not. But can they differentiate real words from random letters that were put together? According to recent discoveries, yes! While the baboons didn't recognize what the words meant, they were able to pick out  phony words.To ascertain this, scientist use an experiment  involving six baboons.The baboons were trained with touch screen computers. If the primates touched a cross on the screen after seeing a real wordtouched a cross on the screen after seeing a real word, they got a treat. They would also receive a treat if they pressed an oval on the screen after seeing a bogus word.After more than a month of training, most of the baboons got very good at this. Three out of four times, the average baboon could correctly identify the word.The highest-scoring monkey identified 308 real words; the lowest-scoring monkey picked out 81. For a bunch of monkeys, they're not monkeying around!

I believe that this experiment was definitely good way to use our resources. It could help lead up to primates being able to read and write. Monkeys being able to read and write would be useful to our society because they would be able to express their feelings on a piece of paper. Therefore, they would be able to tell humans what they would like have to without humans having to guess. It might even lead us to see what goes on inside an animals mind! Sources:

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Current Events: Ancient Flower Blooms Again

30,000 years ago, an Arctic squirrel decided to bury seeds and fruits in an underground chamber in northeastern Siberia. The ground became permafrost, which is a layer of soil that stays frozen for a long time. Recently, Russian scientists dug out those pieces of fruit. With those pieces, the scientists managed to grow plants in the lab! These plant deserves to go in the Guinness World Records because they are the oldest flowering plants that researchers have ever revived from a deep freeze. This article was released on March 16, 2012.

       The discovery that plants can be brought back to life from 30,000 years ago is amazing! Just think about what this could mean for the science world! In the future, some plants that are common today may be non-existent, such as daisies. So we could bury the plants for later use. Also, if that plant could cure some disease that we didn't know that it could, people from the future would probably be able to revive that plant and use it. Imagine the lives that plant could save! I hope that we continue discover more ancient plants, revive them, and use them to cure ourselves from sickness. It may eventually lead to preserving human life as well... who knows.