"The 100th Monkey Principle" Part 1

"Running is not Freedom!" Last night while watching the movie "Django Unchained" starring Jamie Fox and Kerry Washington i stumbled on something interesting i will be sharing with us today. It wasn't from the movie, but the made me stumbled on it. A fable or metaphor told by one Dr. Lyall Watson tells us of...... The Japanese monkey, Macaca Fuscata, who had been observed in the wild for a period of over 30years. In 1952, on the island of Koshima, scientists were providing monkeys with sweet potatoes dropped in the sand. The monkey liked the taste of the raw sweet potatoes, but they found the dirt unpleasant. An 18-month-old female named Imo found she could solve the problem by washing the potatoes in a nearby stream. She taught this trick to her mother. Her playmates also learned this new way and they taught their mothers too. This "Cultural Innovation" was gradually picked up by various monkeys - before the eyes of the scientists. Between 1952 and 1958 all the young monkeys learned to wash the sandy sweet potatoes to make them more palatable. Only the adults who imitated their children learned this social improvement. Other adults kept eating the dirty sweet potatoes. THEN SOMETHING STARTLING TOOK PLACE........ Guess what happened? Join me here tommorow as we shall be discussing the concluding part. Until then...... Remember, change begins at home! #AkinTolaSpeaks#