History & Science

Over the next few days I’ll be trying to get caught up with the huge repository of ‘to-post’ items I’ve had saved for H&S for many months now.

Hopefully all of the medieval document freaks that frequent this blog will enjoy the last post, and for something quite different, here is video 1/6 of a fantastic documentary from Natural World; The Chimpcam Project.

Here’s the description provided by the original uploader:

“How does a chimpanzee see the world? A research project at Edinburgh Zoo is designed to answer just that question in an innovative new way - by training chimps to use video touch screens and giving them a special chimp-proof camera. How will they react to tools which in evolutionary terms are a few million years ahead of them? As chimp specialist Betsy Herrelko finds out, trying to communicate with chimps using video technology has its trials and tribulations.”

To continue watching after video 1, you can jump here to get to the original location and follow the sidebar links.