The study compared spinning speeds and found the animals can spin while holding a rope as fast as professional human dancers and circus artists - as well as Dervish Muslims who take part in whirling ceremonies in order to achieve a spiritual trance.
Dr Lameira added:"Spinning alters our state of consciousness, it messes up with our body-mind responsiveness and coordination, which make us feel sick, lightheaded, and even elated as in the case of children playing in merry-go-rounds, spinner-wheels and carousels."
He continued:"If all great apes seek dizziness, then our ancestors are also highly likely to have done so."The apes were doing this purposefully, almost as if they were dancing - a known mechanism in humans that universally facilitates mood regulation, social bonding and heightens the senses and is based on rotation movements.
In videos where the animals used ropes or vines to spin they spun the fastest and for the longest amount of time, the study found. The researchers also tried spinning at these speeds and times themselves and found it difficult to achieve the third bout of spins at these speeds - apes were noticeably dizzy at that point in the video and were likely to lose their balance and fall down.
"This would indicate that the primates deliberately keep spinning, despite starting to feel the effects of dizziness, until they are unable to keep their balance any longer," explained Dr Marcus Perlman, lecturer at the department of English language and linguistics of the University of Birmingham, who co-led the research.
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