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🔥Hot Take 🔥: Monkeys + money = chaos? Not quite as wild as social media claims. Science did teach monkeys about "money", but some juicy bits are way overhyped!
🔥Hot Take 🔥: Monkeys + money = chaos? Not quite as wild as social media claims. Science did teach monkeys about "money", but some juicy bits are way overhyped!
🎯 Reality Check: Mostly legit 😎
📝 Why: Scientists at Yale did train capuchin monkeys to use silver tokens as currency to buy treats from researchers. The 2005 study showed monkeys could understand simple economic concepts like value and budgeting (“… the tokens became an effective substitute for money for monkeys.” – Chen, Lakshminarayanan & Santos, 2006, Science). So yes, this experiment really happened!
🔗 Source: Chen, M.K., Lakshminarayanan, V., & Santos, L.R. (2006), Science.