Brian
02-22-2007, 09:16 PM
For First Time, Chimps Seen Making Weapons for Hunting (http://www.thetechlounge.com/news/11260/For+First+Time+Chimps+Seen+Making+Weapons+for+Hunt ing/)
"Using their hands and teeth, the chimpanzees were repeatedly seen tearing the side branches off long, straight sticks, peeling back the bark and sharpening one end. Then, grasping the weapons in a "power grip," they jabbed them into tree-branch hollows where bush babies -- small, monkeylike mammals -- sleep during the day.
In one case, after repeated stabs, a chimpanzee removed the injured or dead animal and ate it, the researchers reported in yesterday's online issue of the journal Current Biology.
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In other news, new evidence suggests that Novellist Pierre Boulle, author of Planet of the Apes, may have had intense psychic abilities and actually based his book off of premonitions he had as a child! Look out, those damned dirty apes are gaining on us!"
Read full story here (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/22/AR2007022201007.html)
"Using their hands and teeth, the chimpanzees were repeatedly seen tearing the side branches off long, straight sticks, peeling back the bark and sharpening one end. Then, grasping the weapons in a "power grip," they jabbed them into tree-branch hollows where bush babies -- small, monkeylike mammals -- sleep during the day.
In one case, after repeated stabs, a chimpanzee removed the injured or dead animal and ate it, the researchers reported in yesterday's online issue of the journal Current Biology.
[image]
In other news, new evidence suggests that Novellist Pierre Boulle, author of Planet of the Apes, may have had intense psychic abilities and actually based his book off of premonitions he had as a child! Look out, those damned dirty apes are gaining on us!"
Read full story here (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/22/AR2007022201007.html)