Good friends

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Another spontaneous sharing inspired by the information I've found on Twitter

I wasn't meaning to do another found on Twitter sharing post so soon or even post anything at all today. But this picture by the Jane Goodall Institute is just too good to miss, and fits so well in my recent discussions with my friends here about non-human friends and new begining. 😉

Photo title: New Year, New Friends. Makasi plays with Lobo the dog at Tchimpounga Chimpanzee Rehabilitation Center (Chimp Photo of the Week posted by JaneGoodallInst on 3 January 2011 (for them :p))

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  1. The TwitPic was charming. :)I have a post on the friendship between an orangutan and a hound dog. There's a cute video of them interacting.

  3. Originally posted by debplatt:

    There's a cute video of them interacting.

    Aaahh! :cute: :love: Originally posted by qlue:

    🙂

  6. That Olivier is a Man-of-Few-Words, even more so than Silent Man Bob. :jester:UPDATE: okay, when I posted this, there was an empty comment above me from Olivier… I swear…

  7. Originally posted by debplatt:

    there was an empty comment above me from Olivier

    :bomb: posting, deleting, re-posting, re-deleting !!!

  8. Strangely as I cannot see the video from Deb (blocked due to Copyright) I wanted to add a picture of Jane Goodall from an article of the National geographic (October 2010 issue). But no image appears, I tried with others and I have no success. Has anyone got the same problem when commenting on MM's pages ?Thanks !

  9. Originally posted by debplatt:

    There's a cute video of them interacting.

    Sadly, it's said that National Geographic blocked it in my country because of Copyright, anyway here is a photo from the 60's(featuring in an article of NG october 2010 – I can have the original english edition here from the "bureau de tabac" which is a shop where you can buy tobacco products, stamps, newspapers, …) :Friends !!

  10. Originally posted by debplatt:

    That Olivier is a Man-of-Few-Words,

    :lol:Originally posted by arduinna:

    Strangely as I cannot see the video from Deb

    Nor could I. I had to watch the alternative video (link in her comment) myself.Originally posted by arduinna:

    I wanted to add a picture of Jane Goodall from an article of the National geographic (October 2010 issue). But no image appears, I tried with others and I have no success.

    :confused: No one else has complained. [Addendum]There was an extra unnecessary tag in one of the previous comments. I deleted it (without causing any change in the comment content). Would you try again to see if that was causing it?

  11. Originally posted by mimi_s_mum:

    I deleted it (without causing any change in the comment content)

    :yes:

  12. I think the phrase that I've run into is "grooming went up the dominance hierarchy" like in this passage from the International Journal of Primatology:

    High-ranking males had more grooming partners than mid- or low-ranking males. Grooming predominantly went up the dominance hierarchy…

  13. Jane Goodall looks so young in that photo. My understanding is that in the primate world the one who is doing the grooming is lower in the social hierarchy than the one who is being groomed.

  14. Hmm. There does seem to be a problem with the html in this page. I just tried using the html for quotes and links and they didn't work. I had to edit my comment and replace the html tags with bbcode tags.

  17. Thank you for the link to the article.

    Published data from a smaller chimpanzee community at Mahale show no rank or rank distance effect on male grooming. These results and earlier, conflicting findings on the association between dominance rank and grooming in male chimpanzees indicate that variation in group size, i.e., the number of males per community, probably influences the strength of any such effects, … Data on coalitions at Ngogo support the argument that high-ranking males are valuable social partners, and similarity in strategies of alliance formation may influence the distribution of grooming.

    Sounds to me very much like our human society ;)Originally posted by debplatt:

    I just tried using the html for quotes and links and they didn't work.

    Hmmm. :confused: Olivier's HTML comment is working. :([Addendum]Yap. HTML is not working after Olivier's comment. I've posted a couple of test comments without a joy (test comments have been deleted)Should I bother myself and replace Olivier's HTML tags with the BB tags? 🙁

  18. Originally posted by debplatt:

    some alien observer could decide that humans shake hands on being introduced, … Later some other alien researcher does a journal article insisting that humans bow when being introduced.

    :lol:I could imagine the issue could be confounded even further by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hongi :p

  19. No, only geeks insert html into comments anyway. :left:You know, I think it is fair to say that Chimpanzees, like humans, have social groups, and each group develops its own, unique culture. It could be that's why a behavioral pattern will emerge in one group and not in another.

  20. Totally agree. Just see the vast range of cultural and behavioural differences we humans exhibit. Originally posted by debplatt:

    only geeks insert html into comments anyway.

    😆 I know I won't. I'm a nerd, not a geek. :p

  21. Originally posted by mimi_s_mum:

    Totally agree. Just see the vast range of cultural and behavioural differences we humans exhibit.

    I was just thinking how some alien observer could decide that humans shake hands on being introduced, then write this up in an astro-anthropology journal. Later some other alien researcher does a journal article insisting that humans bow when being introduced. Then the astro-anthropologists would have to battle over who was right. :spock:

  23. I know very little about the Maori culture, so this was a new one to me. Interesting that touching noses in other cultures is considered to be a romantic, intimate gesture. I was reading about the ancient Egyptian culture and this custom was used like kissing would be in ours. Later the ancient Egyptians replaced this custom with the Greek custom of kissing lips.

  24. I wish I had thought of the banana stunt, naaah I gained the monkeys trust anyway, it would just have taken me less time is suppose.

  25. Originally posted by mimi_s_mum:

    Should I bother myself and replace Olivier's HTML tags with the BB tags?

    Done ! but the BBCode of http://www.bbcode.org/ didn't worked well, in particular the "center" tag, so I used the "Opera" tags given here : http://my.opera.com/croquemitaine/blog/bbcode and here http://my.opera.com/newbiesofopera/forums/topic.dml?id=233873 (In Tamil's post "IMGCENTER" is missing)PS: my HTML code had an error a slashed-font was missing. I think it should have worked, but to know BBcode can be useful. Thanks MM to "force" me to use it.

  27. Olivier – Thanks for the bbcode links. I've bookmarked them for future reference.

  28. Originally posted by debplatt:

    I was reading about the ancient Egyptian culture and this custom was used like kissing would be in ours. Later the ancient Egyptians replaced this custom with the Greek custom of kissing lips.

    That's interesting. Thanks for that. Hongi is only ceremoniously practised now, and a little awkward for those with glasses. Originally posted by NitroH:

    I wish I had thought of the banana stunt

    😆 101 uses of bananas :pOriginally posted by arduinna:

    PS: my HTML code had an error a slashed-font was missing.

    That might've been the actual cause. But thank you for fixing the code, anyway. :up:

  29. You know I have been trying to use HTML tags to insert images into comments elsewhere, but once I save the image, it disappears. I've had to switch to BBCODE. That's surprising. I went to some of my old blog posts and looked at comments there that had images in them, and they still were displaying just fine.Let me try inserting an image with html using a closing slash below…Nope, it didn't work. And when I open the comment again so that I can edit it, I see the the HTML has been removed. Interesting that it does this for new comments but displays the old ones just fine. The stripping must happen when the comment is saved. Looks like if I want to insert rich media into a comment, I better memorize the bbcode that Olivier linked to earlier. :coffee:

  30. Thank you for your study, Olivier.Are you a nerdy geek, geeky nerd, pure geek, pure nerd, all or none of above? 😀

  33. Ok I did some tests while you were away :whistle: … the html tag "div" doesn't work or hide everything and html tag "img" works but when I use backslash "" the code seems to be taken as BBcode. As a conclusion I would say that Opera HTML is less robust than before and tend to prefer BBCode

  34. Originally posted by debplatt:

    I have been trying to use HTML tags to insert images into comments elsewhere, but once I save the image, it disappears.

    Originally posted by debplatt:

    And when I open the comment again so that I can edit it, I see the the HTML has been removed.

    I've just tested it and I can confirm disappearance of HTML. 🙁HTML test link added after first posting of the comment

  36. I spoke too soon. HTML seem to stay if you first post your comment without one, then after posting edit the comment and insert the tags. I've no idea why, though. :confused:

  37. Originally posted by mimi_s_mum:

    I can confirm disappearance of HTML

    :rip: 😥

  38. I conclude from this experiment that they are trying to grandfather in the old HTML tags. So if you've already got them in your old stuff, they will still work. And if you edit an existing comment, it's still okay. But if you try to create a new comment, they have an input filter to remove the HTML.:right: Or it could be a bug. :confused:

  39. Hmm. Now I'm just going to try to post an image immediately.There should be an image above.

  40. Originally posted by mimi_s_mum:

    HTML seem to stay if you first post your comment without one

    :eyes: but if I post without HTML, there won't have any problem with HTML ?!? Do you know who was Jacques de la Palice ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_de_la_Palice …Though it's not true, it is said that he told things such as : "Two days before his death , he was still quite alive"Didn't you write a "lapalissade" ?

  41. Originally posted by mimi_s_mum:

    I spoke too soon. HTML seem to stay if you first post your comment without one, then after posting edit the comment and insert the tags. I've no idea why, though.

    Okay, that's weird enough that I'm going to try it. On my first post of this comment, it ends HERE.Now I am editing my comment to add a link to an image in my blog.Will the image appear above? Let's save and see.

  42. In the monkey vet surgery that you linked to above, MM, I think my favorite parts were the photo of the cute, little monkey hand clutching the person's finger, and hearing that they tied a yellow bow on his tail so that when he came to he would be distracted from his stitches.

  43. Originally posted by debplatt:

    you know, like saving an empty comment and then editing it.

    😆

  44. Originally posted by debplatt:

    In the monkey vet surgery that you linked to above, MM, I think my favorite parts were the photo of the cute, little monkey hand clutching the person's finger,

    Oh, yes, totally agree with you, Deb. Shame the pic is on a newspaper site and putting it here would probably infringe their copyright. WellingtonZoo usually posts pics on Twitter/Twitpic, which makes them easy to share.Like this:

  45. 😆 😆 :lol:How many empty comments did I post? :D[Edit]Oops. Just realised the above picture link (which I've removed) was meant to be in another comment. :doh:

  46. Originally posted by mimi_s_mum:

    Might be a measure to prevent the recent propaganda page-hijacking comment spammers

    Not like they'd every think of a way around Opera's counter-mearues… you know, like saving an empty comment and then editing it. :p

  47. Originally posted by debplatt:

    But if you try to create a new comment, they have an input filter to remove the HTML.

    Might be a measure to prevent the recent propaganda page-hijacking comment spammers:Discussion at the comminity forum:http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=753062How some of the affected users responded:http://my.opera.com/qlue/blog/for-those-of-you-who-havent-noticed-there-hashttp://my.opera.com/serola/blog/commenting-temporary-limitedOr a simply a bug :p

  48. this is an "empty" comment with nothing interesting to read or to discuss :whistle: this is an "empty" comment with nothing interesting to read or to discuss :whistle: this is an "empty" comment with nothing interesting to read or to discuss :whistle: this is an "empty" comment with nothing interesting to read or to discuss :whistle:

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