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        "description": "<p>May 20, 2010\u2014For the first time, according to researchers, bonobos  have been recorded shaking their heads to discourage other bonobos from doing something\u2014perhaps a \"primitive precursor of the human head shake.\"</p>", 
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        "title": "Bonobos Say No by Shaking Heads Like Human?", 
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        "credit": " 2010 National Geographic; Video Christel Schneider ", 
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        "transcript": "<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Human mothers may yell at their toddlers for playing with their food. But what do other primates do?</p><p class=\"MsoNormal\">This bonobo mom, Ulindi, is trying to get her infant Luiza, to stop playing with a piece of leek.</p><p class=\"MsoNormal\">Eventually, she pulls it away.</p><p class=\"MsoNormal\">But the infant goes back for the leek, and the mother begins shaking her head back and forth, as if to say, \u201cno, no, no.\u201d</p><p class=\"MsoNormal\">This  display, reported in a recent issue of the journal \u201cPrimates,\u201d was just  one of many similar displays of bonobos observed by researcher Christel  Schneider and colleagues at six different zoos in Europe.</p><p class=\"MsoNormal\">While  bonobos have been observed shaking their heads sideways before, it was  mostly in instances of play. Schneider says these are the first  observations of bonobos trying to prevent another from engaging in a  certain activity.</p><p class=\"MsoNormal\">Schneider suggests this could  reflect a \u2018primitive precursor of the human head shake\u2019 showing  negativity to another. But further study should be done to find the  answer.</p><p class=\"MsoNormal\">The videos are from 190 hours of  recorded observations of several species of primates, including bonobos,  chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans, over a 7-year period.</p><p class=\"MsoNormal\">The  researchers cite other research suggesting \u201cbonobos differ from other  apes in social-problem-solving strategies because their emotional  temperament affords cooperative behavior.\u201d</p><p class=\"MsoNormal\">They  also point out that head shaking with a negative connotation has been  reported in chimpanzees, but only in single-case observations. And they  suggest more research to determine if the bonobos are actually closer to  humans in the head-shaking behavior than chimps.</p>", 
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