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Subject Yale researchers train monkeys to use money. Guess what they bought?

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Economic researchers at Yale managed to successfully train Capuchin monkeys to understand
and use currency.
The result? The monkeys used their newfound currency to buy sex:

Perhaps the most distinguishing characteristic of money, after all, is its fungibility,
the fact that it can be used to buy not just food but anything. During the chaos
in the monkey cage, Chen saw something out of the corner of his eye that he would later
try to play down but in his heart of hearts he knew to be true. What he witnessed
was probably the first observed exchange of money for sex in the history of monkeykind.
(Further proof that the monkeys truly understood money: the monkey who was paid for sex
immediately traded the token in for a grape.)

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