Saturday, February 24, 2007

When animals attack

For First Time, Chimps Seen Making Weapons for Hunting - washingtonpost.comI thought this was interesting. To think of the reasoning power required and having no prior, training this is pretty amazing stuff. The author notes chimps have often provided a window into human behavior, as a personal observation I must say their success rate 1 out of 22 is not that far off my own hunting success considering they made their own weapons they may have an edge, I can only hope the Bush Babie is not as crafty as a white tail or turkey.

3 comments:

Kyla said...

That is a totally amazing article. I took a class on the evolution of primate intelligence and one of the big things they talk about as an indicator of intelligence is tool use. Interestingly enough, chimps are the only other animal known to commit murder.

Steve said...

Knowing my experience with using tools around the house, I'm not surprised there is a correlation with murder.

Anonymous said...

Maybe anger management classes would be in order.