{"id":84876,"date":"2018-11-18T10:23:04","date_gmt":"2018-11-18T18:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/surprising-study-orangutans-are-only-non-human-primates-who-can-talk-about-the-past"},"modified":"2018-11-18T10:23:04","modified_gmt":"2018-11-18T18:23:04","slug":"surprising-study-orangutans-are-only-non-human-primates-who-can-talk-about-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/surprising-study-orangutans-are-only-non-human-primates-who-can-talk-about-the-past","title":{"rendered":"Surprising Study: Orangutans Are Only Non-Human Primates Who Can \u2018Talk\u2019 About the Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UPsY9ExoEs4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We already know that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecowatch.com\/tag\/orangutans\">orangutans<\/a> are <a href=\"https:\/\/orangutancanada.ca\/about-orangutans\/intelligence\/\" target=\"_blank\">some of the smartest<\/a> land <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecowatch.com\/animals\">animals<\/a> on Earth. Now, researchers have found evidence that these amazing apes can communicate about past events\u2014the first time this trait has been observed in a non-human primate.<\/p>\n<p>A new <a href=\"http:\/\/advances.sciencemag.org\/content\/4\/11\/eaau3401\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a> published in the journal <em>Science Advances<\/em> revealed that when wild Sumatran orangutan mothers spotted a predator, they suppressed their alarm calls to others until the threat was no longer there.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecowatch.com\/orangutans-communication-26201097\">https:\/\/www.ecowatch.com\/orangutans-communication-26201097<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We already know that orangutans are some of the smartest land animals on Earth. Now, researchers have found evidence that these amazing apes can communicate about past events\u2014the first time this trait has been observed in a non-human primate. A new study published in the journal Science Advances revealed that when wild Sumatran orangutan mothers [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":499,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/499"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}