Spinning Muscles in Gorillas

Researchers from the University of Sowaric and Birmingham have been finding out they've been observing the thrill-seeking tendencies of gorillas. Spinning behavior has been documented as a gesture that apes use but in the case of Zola it looked like he was spinning around as part of a creative display, says Marcus Perlman. It's not clear whether the spinning is stimulating and fun and then the dizziness is a consequence of that or whether the dizziness are part of the stimulation and the fun. And it does raise the psychological perhaps even philosophical questions as to why apes and by extension us feel the urge to engage in these mind altering behaviors because it's something almost universal across humanity.