It may lead to clues why humans evolved the desire to seek altered mental states, it is claimed.
Great apes deliberately spin themselves around to make themselves dizzy, researchers have said.
"If this was indeed the case, it would carry huge consequences on how we think about modern human cognition capacities and emotional needs," said Dr Adriano Lameira, associate professor of psychology at Warwick, who co-led the study. The analysis found the apes spun an average speed of 1.5 revolutions per second. In many of the videos, the primates used ropes or vines to spin, and it was in these they spun the fastest and for the longest amounts of time.
He continued: "If all great apes seek dizziness, then our ancestors are also highly likely to have done so.The apes were doing it purposefully, as if dancing and the parallel between human and ape behaviour was beyond coincidental, he said.
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