Thursday, November 24, 2011

How hard is it to teach a chimpanzee how to ride a bicycle?

Since they have better agility and balance than humans I wonder if it takes them less time.|||Well, for one thing a chimp wouldn't fit on a bike because their legs are too short and their arms are too long. It would have to be a custom made bike.


For another thing, they don't understand the concept of a wheel or pedals or anything mechanical, and they can't understand English, so it would be pretty hard to explain the whole idea.. So my guess is that you would have a lot harder time teaching a chimp to ride a bike than normal ten year old kid.|||I hope this is a purely hypothetical question, since no one should ever attempt to teach a chimpanzee to ride a bicycle. Our closest relatives deserve to be treated and presented with more dignity than that. If one is truly interested in learning about chimpanzees, there is an infinite number of more suitable questions that could be posed.

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