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Scientists Placed 5 Monkeys In A Cage For an Experiment. They Didn’t Expect What Happened Next…


A group of scientists placed 5 monkeys in a cage and in the middle, a ladder with bananas on top.

Every time a monkey went up the ladder, the scientists soaked the rest of the monkeys with cold water.

After a while, every time a monkey went up the ladder, the other ones beat up the one on the ladder.

After some time, no monkey dare to go up the ladder regardless of the temptation.

Scientists then decided to substitute one of the monkeys. The first thing the new monkey did was go up the ladder. Immediately, the other monkeys beat him up.

After several beatings, the new member learned not to climb the ladder even though he never knew why.

The second monkey was substituted and the same thing occurred. The first monkey participated on the beating for the second monkey. A third monkey was changed and the same was repeated. The fourth was then substituted and the beating was repeated and finally the fifth monkey was replaced.

What was left was a group of 5 monkeys that, despite having never received the cold shower, continued to beat up any monkey who attempted to climb the ladder.

If it was possible to ask the monkeys why they would beat up all those who attempted to go up the ladder, the answer would most likely be something to the tune of, “I don’t know, that’s just how things are around here.” Sound familiar?

Share this with someone who you know might be asking themselves why we continue to do things the same way, even if there’s a different, better alternative.

This story is based on the experiments of Harry Harlow and was written by Professor Gary Hamel, author of Competing For The Future.

I think this could explain a lot of the policies where I work ...

bingo : )
as well as a lot of other things
i agree

Then the monkeys went into public office. That explains much.

and the voters continued to elect them for many many years and no one knows why///

I hung a copy of something similar (apes instead of monkeys) on a wall in the meeting room of an organization I once belonged to, maybe 15-20 years ago. It stayed there for a long time, but it's probably gone now.
I put it up after I got damned sick and tired of hearing a certain few members saying "Because that’s the way it’s always been around here."

Some people might have thought the boss put it there, so they left it alone. Others (maybe including the boss) might have suspected I had done it, but also left it there. (Because they agreed with it, I hope.)

Collectivism at it's finest!

That an interesting experiment but doesn't seem to push it far enough. I would have placed five starving monkeys in the cage as well to see that result, then replaced with more starving monkeys, one at a time.

Another interesting result would be to have five non-starving monkeys to begin, then replace with starving monkeys, one at a time.


That would be a banana blood bath! Unethical but interesting; just like humans.

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yeah...it's really cruel.

These scientists, they get up to a lot of monkey business.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5b2w_nJLuvw
Chuck Berry - Too Much Monkey Business

I know if I laugh, it'll just encourage you guys, but I can't help it.

Was just discussing this very topic at work again yesterday! Seems I am able to use it each time to describe when an old archaic rule or directive needs to be explained.

Or replace the ladder with one lone female?
When one monkey has sex, the others are drenched.

fascinating thanks for sharing

Even better! That's hilarious!

MONKEY-JUSTICE!

This chimp experiment seems to hit back in a different context, here's how.

A recent press release from NASA states that astronaut Scott Kelly has completed a year in outer space. 'It's Kelly's 4th mission in the International Space Station and he has accumulated 540 days in space.'

Kelly adds: "I didn’t mark a calendar, just worked up from one milestone to another …", which clearly implies that it's been a long and lonely mission.

So the question is how did Mr. Kelly and his colleagues retain their sanity in space. Okay, so there were a few women astronauts to keep up the morale but with every body being politically correct, it must have been arduous to 'resist natural instincts', unless:

1. They couldn't do it in space – as both participants would have to be belted down
2. The Russians were around, so no privacy
Or
3. They were subject to similar 'conditioning' program as the 5 chimps above (when a female was switched for the ladder)

So there it is the real problem, Kelly has now implied, the one we all avoided in the 'glamour' of space.