YouTube hosts innumerable videos of ‘funny zoo animals’, featuring lions and otters, polar bears and lamas, chimps and giraffes and many others. Different as these animals are, the videos follow a similar plot: animals and humans actively react to each other in an apparently unexpected and h...
While, as we've mentioned earlier, ethologists are fighting over the correct inter- pretations of apes' behaviour that would put them not too close to the humans, but not too far either, popular culture has always been quick to capitalise on tensions between closeness and distance for comic...