Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Can chimps dance to music?

So, I was watching Monday night's Daily Show, and Oliver Sacks made the odd claim that only humans keep rhythm to music. That chimps can't dance. http://www.hulu.com/watch/80421/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-oliver-sacks#s-p1-st-i1

That just sounds incorrect to me, but I don't actually know. Is Oliver Sacks correct, or did his mistook his humanism for a science?