A new study has determined that wild orangutans will announce their future travel plans to their mates and others in their community.
The research, funded by the Wildlife Conservation Society, the Leakey Foundation, the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research and the Swiss National Science Foundation, followed 15 wild male orangutans. The study was published in the scientific journal PLOS ONE.
As the orangutans were feeding and resting they were observed making over 200 long calls. They did this prior to and during their movements in different directions. The researchers matched these different long calls with the orangutans' travels, and it was determined that the wild orangutans were announcing to others where they were going prior to their travels.
Other long calls announced changes in direction. The fact that wild orangutans plan and think out their future travels was previously unfathomable to biologists who assumed that wild orangutans - and other animals - are simply instinctively alive and do not share with humans an understanding of the future.
Yet this research shows that wild animals - like humans - do contemplate the future. They do share with us the common trait of contemplating their goals and objectives that involve events of the future.
This reality is also quickly observed with pets who will immediately project their desires into the future as they respond to commands that contemplate positive treatment in the future.
Researchers are surprised with this observation. The modern biological theory is based upon an insufficient and faulty theory of evolution that assumes animals are simply genetically programmed for survival - as if they are biological robots or something.
The error of this theory becomes evident by simple observation - as occurred in this study. These studies reveal that within the body of an animal dwells the same essence that lives within a human body - a living being.
We can determine this quickly by looking into the eyes of an animal - pet or otherwise. Who is looking back at us? Is it a machine? A genetic robot? Who is responding to us with fear, needs and/or desires?
We can simply ask any pet owner - most of whom will insist that their pet is a living being. Many pet owners share their lives with their pets and some consider their pets to be their best friends. Could these pet owners be best friends with genetic robots?
This finding not only reveals that animals are alive like us, but that their eventual evolution is drawn upon their contemplation of the future. The living beings within have goals and want to improve their condition.
This, of course, produces the impetus for the evolution of the conscious living being.
