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Chimps Use Tool Kit
Wannabe Code Monkey writes "This article on National Geographic describes how scientists have observed chimps using different sticks for different tasks when retrieving termites from nests. Scientists had previously only seen chimps using one kind of tool, this switching back and forth based on the task at hand is the first such behavior witnessed. Three videos in Real format of the chimps are linked from the article as well."
Those chimps, rooting through your tool kit, probably looking for a spanner to tighten their nuts!
Why, just the other day, I saw Bush use one microphone to bash Kerry, and then another to claim that going to war in Iraq has made America safer. Those critters are smarter than we think!
The correlation between ignorance of statistics and using "correlation is not causation" as an argument is close to 1.
GTK? Qt? Motif? :-P
Talk about a code monkey...
My dad always told me that "A dog will warm himself by the fire, but will never throw another log on it." So now, I guess a chimp will add fuel, but won't get one started?
This also reminds me of that old headline at The Onion: "Dolphins Develop Thumbs: 'Oh Shit,' say Humans"
"Wow. Now THAT'S a lot of angry Indians." - Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer
Wrong conclusion - this only proves that UNIX was designed by chimps...
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This isn't news... the local Ford dealer has had chimps using tools to work on cars for years.
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Objects in Mirror are Losing!
When you only have one kind of stick, every problem looks like a termite.
Probably GTK, if I had to guess...
*everything* is Orwellian to cats.
this switching back and forth based on the task at hand
This is proof that chimps flip-flop!!
Looks like the guys at Dell will have an even cheaper place to outsource their maintenance operations to.
It's good to use your head, but not as a battering ram.