so, if a chimp slips on a banana peel…
Apes appear to have a crude sense of humor. They have even been seen playing practical jokes of sorts at one another’s expense. This could shed light on the evolutionary source of laughter.
“Human laughter derives from the play invitation vocalizations of Old World monkeys and apes, but this is normally confined to juveniles and adolescents; adults don’t play,” Robin Dunbar professor of evolutionary psychology at the University of Oxford.
Further reading: How Laughter Works.
(via treehugger)
