Want to write a ficlet but coming up short on subjects to get you started? In addition to the lovely picture inspirations we provide, allow me to give you some textual inspiration from time to time as well. Here’s one, fresh from the Washington Post: Behavior May Suggest We’re Not Only Human.
When Emory University primatologist Frans de Waal read a news story that said Microsoft’s chief executive, Steve Ballmer, had hurled a chair across the room on hearing an employee was going to work for rival Google, the scientist immediately made a connection with his own research: “When I see such behavior, I think of a chimpanzee.”...
Over the past two centuries, people have had to disabuse themselves about various ideologies asserting that humans are fundamentally different from other animals. Biologists have shown that our arms and legs and organs have long evolutionary histories. Beliefs about the uniqueness of human behavior might well be the last bastion of our superiority complex, but research by de Waal and many others suggests that even this redoubt may be crumbling.
“I have done studies of reconciliation and coalition strategies in chimpanzees,” de Waal said. “Business managers tell me that reminds them so much of what people do.”
I can think of lots of ways to go on a story, using this article as inspiration – hopefully you can, too. Enjoy!
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