{"id":2627,"date":"2009-06-24T12:56:37","date_gmt":"2009-06-24T10:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=2627"},"modified":"2009-06-24T12:56:37","modified_gmt":"2009-06-24T10:56:37","slug":"funny-laughable-ridiculous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2009\/06\/funny-laughable-ridiculous\/","title":{"rendered":"Funny? Laughable? Ridiculous?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cell.com\/current-biology\/abstract\/S0960-9822(09)01129-4\">www.cell.com\/current-biology<\/a> shows humour<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Human emotional expressions, such as laughter, are argued to have their origins in ancestral nonhuman primate displays. To test this hypothesis, the current work examined the acoustics of tickle-induced vocalizations from infant and juvenile orangutans, gorillas, chimpanzees, and bonobos, as well as tickle-induced laughter produced by human infants.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 15.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.cell.com\/current-biology shows humour Human emotional expressions, such as laughter, are argued to have their origins in ancestral nonhuman primate displays. To test this hypothesis, the current work examined the acoustics of tickle-induced vocalizations from infant and juvenile orangutans, gorillas, chimpanzees, and bonobos, as well as tickle-induced laughter produced by human infants. &nbsp; CC-BY-NC Science Surf &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2009\/06\/funny-laughable-ridiculous\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Funny? Laughable? Ridiculous?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2512],"class_list":["post-2627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-joke-fun","tag-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2627"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2631,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2627\/revisions\/2631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}