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Tickling Gorillas and the Evolution of Laughter

Keeper Phil Ridges explains how Emmie the gorilla responds to being tickled

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Thought it was just humans that are ticklish? Think again – scientists are studying how animals respond to being tickled in a bid to shed light on how [...]

Смех и щекотка

Щекотка, это добыча смеха вручную.
Вы думаете, только человек боится щекотки? Ошибаетесь – ученые проводят исследование о том, как животные реагируют на щекотку с целью узнать о зарождении и развитии смеха.
Щекотать гориллу – занятие не для слабонервных. Но хозяин одного из таких приматов Фил Риджес не боится экспериментировать со своей подопечной Эмми [...]

Humor and birth control

Nothing is funnier than sex. In all the fretting over teens having babies and ranting against abortion, we forget about the night the bed broke, or the trouble we had pushing the dog off the couch, or even the laugh we had at age 11 when we stole our big sister’s list [...]

Anti-humor

Anti-humor (or anti-comedy) and anti-jokes[1] (also known as unjokes) are a kind of humor based on the absence of an expected joke or punch line in a narration which is set up as a joke. This kind of anticlimax is similar to that of the shaggy dog story.[2]
In anti-comedy the gist of the humor is [...]

Laughter Yoga video

Laughter Yoga video