Saturday 2 November 2013

Spoontaneous

Spoontaneous: adjective. To be unpredictable and relating to spoons. Spoontaneous behaviours have been documented in almost every human culture, the only confirmed exception so far being the Mongols. Spoontaneous behaviours have also been observed in captive animals; animals with the most frequent of these behaviours include gorillas, monkeys and fish. The spoontaneous behaviours shown by these animals varied greatly from throwing spoons (or spoon-like objects) at other animals, to throwing other animals at spoons (or spoon-like objects). Oddly, this kind of random behaviour has not been recorded often enough with objects like forks or knives for a word to be made for unpredictable behaviour with them, these objects are often interacted with in very predictable ways by animals (including humans) captive or otherwise.

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