Humans aren't the only primate messing around with their state of mind for fun.
"What we wanted to try to understand through this study is whether spinning can be studied as a primordial behavior that human ancestors would have been able to autonomously engage in and tap into other states of consciousness. If all great apes seek dizziness, then our ancestors are also highly likely to have done so."
frameborder="0″ allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen> On average, great apes in the videos spun around 5 times in a single go at a rate of about 1.5 spins a second. The whole sequence was repeated about three times, and on the third go, it was common for the animal to lose balance and fall down.
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