Monkeys are like people trapped in fly-bodies
I see the Globe and Mail has reprinted the worse-than-worst AP article about birds 'learning grammar' verbatim.
I look forward to seeing Mark's interlinear interpretation, since I can't make head nor tail of it as written. I really like the opinion attributed to Mark Hauser at the end, though, apparently offered in partial explanation of why the birds did better than his tamarins:
"Monkeys may be trapped like Franz Kafka's Gregor Samsa, a man metamorphosed into a bug and unable to communicate with the outside world, Mr. Hauser suggested."
What??
Hee hee.