Talking tongues, detecting beer, and shifting perspectives on females
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The Different Ways of Interpreting Animal Behavior
In Japanese primatology which developed independently from Western primatology, they had another approach towards studying animals. They started out really early on to document all the individuals and the relationships between those individuals. It's also in their culture that they have female goddesses that have a lot of power, and that might also be influencing their perceptions of females. So there is not this great divide between perceptions about humans and animals so they see this as a continuum.
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