Going Ape

Bin Noddin · Post by **Bin Noddin** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 8:36 pm

This is both fascinating and a little scary. Fascinating that its the females who are out in front like this. Are we seeing an evolutionary step? Dare we turn our backs on a chimp? Are they preparing to take over when we've done making a total mess of things?

For First Time, Chimps Seen Making Weapons for Hunting
By Rick WeissWashington Post Staff Writer
Friday, February 23, 2007; Page A01
Chimpanzees living in the West African savannah have been observed fashioning deadly spears from sticks and using the tools to hunt small mammals -- the first routine production of deadly weapons ever observed in animals other than humans.
The multistep spearmaking practice, documented by researchers in Senegal who spent years gaining the chimpanzees' trust, adds credence to the idea that human forebears fashioned similar tools millions of years ago.

The rest of the story is here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 01007.html

BigCock · Post by **BigCock** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 8:43 pm

war is monkey business

K-mom · Post by **K-mom** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 9:05 pm

& business is war
(or so say the Japanese)

BAS · Post by **BAS** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 9:15 pm

That was a kind of scary discovery! We must stop this research! Knowledge brings fear!

B.

Toolmaker · Post by **Toolmaker** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 10:52 pm

How dare they try to better themselves. Next they're gonna want to make fire to cook their food. Eventually we may have to invade and look for weapons of mass destruction. This MUST be stopped!

DVD Burner · Post by **DVD Burner** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 12:27 am

BAS wrote: That was a kind of scary discovery! We must stop this research! Knowledge brings fear!

B.

Toolmaker wrote:How dare they try to better themselves. Next they're gonna want to make fire to cook their food. Eventually we may have to invade and look for weapons of mass destruction. This MUST be stopped!

Too late.

The smartest monkeys are the Bonobos.

This has already been a topic so far on my tribe:

http://tribes.tribe.net/politicsreligio ... 316f921ce0

It's on how much dumber Bush is than Bonobos.

How Ironic is that?

DVD Burner · Post by **DVD Burner** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 1:09 am

And dont think I want anyone to go to my tribe.

I just dont ferel like posting twice something that's really not worth it.

BAS · Post by **BAS** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 7:38 am

But is Bush actually human? I've always thought he looked more like a chimp..., or maybe something a little further down the evolutionary ladder.

B.

fromMA · Post by **fromMA** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 1:01 pm

Sounds like terrorists if you ask me :wink:

joel the ornery · Post by **joel the ornery** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 1:18 pm

isn't it george's fault?

Ugly Dougly · Post by **Ugly Dougly** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 1:39 pm

BAS wrote:But is Bush actually human? I've always thought he looked more like a chimp..., or maybe something a little further down the evolutionary ladder.

B.

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.

So there you have it. It takes a "power grip" to get rid of Bush, baby.

EvilDustBooger · Post by **EvilDustBooger** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 1:43 pm

...that`s why the chumps, er, I mean the chimps are so pissed off; and hunting the bush babies with sharpened sticks!
My god, I knew it was just a matter of time.....Monkey Jihad !

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 2:43 pm

EvilDustBooger wrote:Monkey Jihad !

I think you just invented your new theme camp...