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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Technology
Nina Massey

Great Apes spin until they are dizzy to get ‘high’

Great apes deliberately spin around in order to make themselves dizzy, researchers have discovered,

Academics at the University of Warwick and the University of Birmingham suggest the findings could provide clues about humans evolving the desire to seek altered mental states and actively manipulate their mood and perception of reality.

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