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To: Archie Meeties who wrote (73075)	3/26/2010 2:42:46 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Yes, I watch primate economics in action each day. Humans are just chimps with a bit more brain power. <Are you familiar with primate economics? > I've read a little bit such as the link you gave. I got my introduction to primate economics decades ago at Auckland Zoo when we could feed the animals. People would take peanuts to the zoo to feed the monkeys. If you pay peanuts, you don't get monkeys. There were peanuts strewn all over the cage and in the feeding trough. We used to take feijoas, silverbeet, carrots, monkey apples, and stuff like that. Fresh fruit and vegetables by the armful. They'd go ape when they saw us coming, racing around the cage and generally performing. We were wealthy and humans nearby cast envious looks as the feeding frenzy was on. One incident still amuses me - I gave a lollipop to a little one. A big brute grabbed it, puzzled, but soon figured it out. He pulled the lolly off the stick, inspected the stick, and handed it back to the little one. Now that's human economics in action. The big brute was the government. People with peanuts were poor and could not hire monkeys to do anything. We could get monkeys to do all sorts of tricks. One I still recall would sit with their arms through the bars, and would look at me, clap hands and hold one out, palm up, requesting some yummies. Of course such good manners were rewarded. Virtous Victorian Values can get some attention even in the monkey world. Mqurice