Money is corrupting even monkeys

Two scientists from Yale University, USA (by professions economist and psychologist) decided to teach monkeys to use money the way they are not the first who carried out such experiments on primates, but that's not the point. They did that once again confirmed that prostitution is often called the oldest profession.

The idea of money, as it turned out, can perceive beings with a tiny brain volume and needs of the whole world which was limited to food, sleep and sex, so think before scientists. Although the Capuchins are well-deserved reputation as one of the most clever species of primates of America, in captivity, they respond well to training.

"At first glance, and in truth it may seem that they in life nothing more is needed. You can feed them candy all day and they'll go and come, go and come at them constantly. It may seem that the Capuchins – walking stomachs", say the researchers.

American biologists have come up with for the monkeys in the enclosure a kind of "work" and "universal enhancement" – money. The job was to pull the lever with a force of 8 pounds. Considerable effort for medium-sized monkeys for these crumbs — unpleasant work.

Each muscled arm, the monkey began to receive a branch of grapes. Once the Capuchins learned the simple rule of "work = reward", they immediately entered the intermediate agent – multi-colored plastic circles. Instead of grapes they began to receive tokens of different "denominations".

For white badge could buy people a branch of grapes on the blue – two, red – glass of soda, and so on.
Soon monkey stratified society. It appeared the same types of behavior that in the human community. There were workaholics and loafers, thugs and drives. One monkey has managed in 10 minutes to lift the lever 185 times! Really wanted to make money. Someone preferred to work racketeering and robbed others.

In continuation of the study of economic behavior, monkeys were given a handful of silvery disks (credits) and demonstrated that, in exchange for a coin animal can get something with real value.

A few months later Capuchins have learned to buy food from a man for sour Apple and brush sweet grapes asked the same number of coins. Naturally, apples are not a success, and stocks of grapes melted. But the picture changed dramatically when the price of apples fell by half. After quite some confusion monkey decided almost entirely to spend their coins on apples. And only rarely allow themselves to eat grapes. Moreover, the hours of satiety monkeys willingly took biologists coins, giving their grapes.

One day, when all the test animals in total cell already knew that some items are more expensive and others cheaper, one of the monkeys entered the compartment where he kept the municipal office and appropriated all the coins themselves, fighting off people trying to take away her metal extraction. So the monkeys made the first Bank robbery.

Point above experiment put themselves monkeys, when the Capuchins discovered the phenomenon of prostitution. Young male gave a coin female. Scientists thought, fell in love and made a gift. But there it was, the girl came for money with knight in a sexual relationship, and then went to the window, which was on duty scientists, and bought them a few grapes. All were satisfied: and monkeys, and scientists. Monkeys have mastered the rudiments of capitalism and defended doctoral scientists.