Comments on: How orangutan engineers build safe and comfortable treetop beds http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/04/16/how-orangutan-engineers-build-safe-and-comfortable-treetop-beds/ Mon, 26 Nov 2012 12:00:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: mtskeptic http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/04/16/how-orangutan-engineers-build-safe-and-comfortable-treetop-beds/#comment-14801 mtskeptic Wed, 18 Apr 2012 07:19:11 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/?p=6754#comment-14801 Humans build nests too, they just require a lot more branches. Humans build nests too, they just require a lot more branches.

]]> By: greg http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/04/16/how-orangutan-engineers-build-safe-and-comfortable-treetop-beds/#comment-14800 greg Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:31:16 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/?p=6754#comment-14800 As a kid I used to climb trees along with neighborhood kids. The trees were in the undeveloped part of the cemetery across the street, and in the summer being 30 feet up was like having your own private air-conditioning. At the top of one tree the trunk was only about 4" in diameter and the branches fanned out equally at the same level providing a dish if you curled around the trunk. I caught a number of short naps in that "nest" under the summer sun and light breeze. Anyone who would reproduce the experience would make a bundle of money.... It looks like the Orangutans have got it all over human beans... As a kid I used to climb trees along with neighborhood kids. The trees were in the undeveloped part of the cemetery across the street, and in the summer being 30 feet up was like having your own private air-conditioning. At the top of one tree the trunk was only about 4″ in diameter and the branches fanned out equally at the same level providing a dish if you curled around the trunk. I caught a number of short naps in that “nest” under the summer sun and light breeze. Anyone who would reproduce the experience would make a bundle of money….

It looks like the Orangutans have got it all over human beans…

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