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A study has shown that monkeys learn from mistakes.

An excerpt of the story posted on INQUIRER.net

CHICAGO–Monkeys are able to learn from their mistakes and will take risks to potentially win better rewards when playing games, a study published Thursday has found.

“This is the first evidence that monkeys, like people, have ‘would-have, could-have, should-have’ thoughts,” said Ben Hayden, a researcher at the Duke University Medical Center and lead author of the study published in the journal Science.

Can we humans do the same? Of course. But history and psychologists tell us that we humans are bound to repeat our mistakes, and often never learn from it. In fact, making mistakes is habit-forming because we humans neglect details, thus we end up in the same hole we fell into, this article explains. Thus, the saying, “A little neglect may breed great mischief,” the article concludes.