{"id":284982,"date":"2018-09-06T10:45:56","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T10:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/09\/06\/anamalarky-tilthat-til-some-chimpanzees-and\/"},"modified":"2018-09-06T10:45:56","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T10:45:56","slug":"anamalarky-tilthat-til-some-chimpanzees-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/09\/06\/anamalarky-tilthat-til-some-chimpanzees-and\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/anamalarky.tumblr.com\/post\/177420827159\/tilthat-til-some-chimpanzees-and-bonobos-are\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">anamalarky<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tilthat.tumblr.com\/post\/177420614552\/til-some-chimpanzees-and-bonobos-are-beginning-to\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">tilthat<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amentian.com\/post\/Adv7\" title=\"Read more\" target=\"_blank\">TIL some chimpanzees and bonobos are beginning to display very primitive precursors to religious behaviour<\/a><\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/todayilearned\/comments\/433cbr\/til_some_chimpanzees_and_bonobos_are_beginning_to\/\" target=\"_blank\">reddit.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ronald_K._Siegel\" title=\"Ronald K. Siegel\" target=\"_blank\">Ronald K. Siegel<\/a> has studied the precursors of religious faith in African elephants and concludes that \u201celephants are aware of natural cycles, as they practice \u201cmoon worship,\u201d waving branches at the waxing moon and engaging in ritual bathing when the moon is full.\u201c<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Religious_behavior_in_animals#cite_note-7\" target=\"_blank\">[7]<\/a><\/sup> Observations by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pliny_the_elder\" title=\"Pliny the elder\" target=\"_blank\">Pliny the elder<\/a> also note supposed elephant reverence for the celestial bodies.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Religious_behavior_in_animals#cite_note-8\" target=\"_blank\">[8]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>fucking cool<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>anamalarky: tilthat: TIL some chimpanzees and bonobos are beginning to display very primitive precursors to religious behaviour via reddit.com Ronald K. Siegel has studied the precursors of religious faith in African elephants and concludes that \u201celephants are aware of natural cycles, as they practice \u201cmoon worship,\u201d waving branches at the waxing moon and engaging in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/09\/06\/anamalarky-tilthat-til-some-chimpanzees-and\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[572,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284982"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}