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[james_davis_nicoll]

Orangutan attempts to hunt fish with spear

Probably just as well the ape never saw anyone grenade-fishing....

I object to the caption on the photo: Apes are not monkeys.

Nicked from theweaselking

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

>ever saw anyone grenade-fishing

Is there actually evidence that they `just`copy humans or
are there Utans who invent such stuff on their own ?

Andreas Morlok

[antikythera.livejournal.com]

Given that they said the apes live near humans and that some of them are rehabilitated from captivity, I'm sure they couldn't help but learn something from watching humans.

There was a discovery a few years ago that chimps in Senegal had invented sharpened sticks for hunting smaller primates. (It was mostly females and a few younger males who were doing it, because only the bigger males were able to catch prey bare-handed, and rarely shared the meat.) I don't know if there's any possibility that they ever saw humans using spears.

[mindstalk.livejournal.com]

Zookeepers tend to consider orangs the most fiendishly inventive of the apes when it comes to getting out of cages and enclosures.

[traviswells.livejournal.com]

Now see, that's exactly the point where I'd start thinking "Hmm, if they're this smart, should I be locking up these animals in the first place?" but I guess that's why I'm not a zookeeper.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I object to the caption on the photo: Apes are not monkeys.

OOK!

[argonel.livejournal.com]

Well said.

[snippy]

And yet we call what us humans do "monkeying around" sometimes. I don't understand the objection.

[schizmatic.livejournal.com]

It's now only a matter of time before we have a loincloth-clad Charlton Heston screaming "Damn you all to Hell!!!!!" on a New York beach.

[galbinus-caeli.livejournal.com]

Dawn of the Living Apes?

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

I think I am just going to nip down to the Command D bunker.

[carloshasanax.livejournal.com]

you can see that without Charlton Heston already.

[rehana.livejournal.com]

A loincloth screaming "Damn you all to Hell!!!!!"?

[avram]

It's a hard life, clothing people's loins.

[sunshaker.livejournal.com]

Screw it. Uplift them now.

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

I was about to say something about how tragic it is that some of these orangutans were rescued from butcher shops: How could anyone treat a fellow intelligent being that way? Then I heard a report on NPR about people blowing each other up in Iraq.

Still. This makes me happy to see.

[matt-ruff.livejournal.com]

Apes are not monkeys.

In related news, Adam's apples make lousy pie filling.

[roseembolism.livejournal.com]

it seems to be doing about as well as I did the tie I tried spear fishing. which now makes me wonder how well an ute could do my job. Hmm...outplacement to other branches of the primate tree?

[llennhoff.livejournal.com]

"The key is to keep banging the rocks together, guys!"

[phanatic.livejournal.com]

"I'll believe apes can use tools when I hear one swearing like a sailor because he just dropped his twig-extender down the header pipe." - I forget who.

[anton-p-nym.livejournal.com]

Y'know, back when I was going to be a Great Writer I made a scribbled one-liner for a short story idea; "Flint-knapping chimps, on the next Geraldo."

Dammit. I could've been a prophet.

-- Steve hates it when a plan doesn't come together.