This came up in 2014 (61 points, 26 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12946505
"Monkey see, monkey do" as they say.
this reminds me of the viral endangered teen Hawaiian monk seal challenge: stick an eel up your nose. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/dec/06/hawaiian-mon...
Also Orcas wearing fish hats: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salmon_hat
> One hypothesis is that orcas wear salmon hats to display high food availability, or that the same individuals that originally started the trend revitalized it.
Just like humans, 80s nostalgia is going strong.
> "Yet, when selection pressures relax (e.g., due to systematic provisioning in captive care), chimpanzees may extend their social learning occasionally to behaviors without direct instrumental utility."
Its expensive and time-sucking to be poor
The chimpfluencer market is severely limited. We SWOT-ed it in 2022 and found the biggest weakness we uncovered was the lack of financial fluency in the sector.
Ah, the old "Ass Grass" Challenge.
This explains so much about us.
gracias
Underrated.