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In an attempt by researchers to show the interconnectedness of life some intriguing studies have been made. One such study involved a group of monkeys inhabiting an island off the coast of Japan.
The monkeys were shown how to eat sweet potatoes in a particular way, to wash the potatoes before eating them. Until that time the monkeys had contented themselves with sandy sweet potatoes.
The taught behaviour was not typical of monkeys. Other monkeys living on the island began to copy this behaviour and soon one hundred were eating sweat potatoes in the new way.
At this point monkeys on an other island about 200 miles away began to washing the potatoes and performing the new sweet potato-eating behaviour.
These monkeys had never had any contact with the monkeys on the first island.
This phenomenon is called the 'Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon'.
'Nothing is as mighty as an idea whose time has come,' Victor Hugo said many years ago. Evidence is emerging that the idea of a natural vegetarian/vegan living is breaking through in all continents and countries alike.
Sigrid De Leo
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