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To: Rambi who wrote (66260)	12/18/2004 2:22:06 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 71178

Grandmothers are not just loveable, they are sources of knowledge and wisdom. Taking care of your grandmother is as selfish as taking care of your library. More, because you can live without a library, but you need someone to tell you when it's time to dig up the root that has the water, and when it's time to gather the red berries, and which red berries are the ones that are good and which ones will kill you. This particular grandmother may have been a genius, whose contributions to the tribe were outstanding, like Imo, the famous Japanese macaque. "In 1953 a young female Japanese macaque called Imo began washing sweet potatoes before eating them, presumably to remove dirt and sand grains. Soon other monkeys had adopted this behaviour, and potato washing gradually spread throughout the troop. When, three years after her first invention, Imo devised a second novel foraging behaviour, that of separating wheat from sand by throwing mixed handfuls into water and scooping out the floating grains, she was almost instantly heralded around the world as a 'monkey genius'." oup.co.uk Or maybe she was just a dotty old lady they were fond of.