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Imo
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Genre
World • World Fusion
Charts
#5,826 today Peak #124
#733 in subgenre Peak #17
Author
Neil O'Brien
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Uploaded
April 03, 2009
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MP3 3.0 MB • 128 kbps • 3:18
Story behind the song
This is about a Japanese macaque monkey called Imo. When scientists were studying her troupe in the early 1950s, they used sweet potatoes to lure the monkeys out so they could watch them. Imo developed a habit of washing her potatoes in water pools - a habit which caught on and eventually became a universal among that population. Her innovations didn't end there though: when scientists began treading rice into the sand on a beach, reasoning that the monkeys would take longer to pick the rice from the sand, Imo developed a trick for separating the rice from the sand by scooping up a handful of both and dropping it in a rock pool, where the sand sank and the rice floated on the surface of the water, allowing her to simply skim the rice off the water. Again, this trick spread throughout the troupe and now they all do it. I've always been fascinated by evolution and the idea that much human evolution is ascribable to cultural innovations. It's wonderful to know that the same process is happening in other species too.
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