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Chimp Found Plotting Against Zoo Guests
rjshirts writes "In further proof that Planet of the Apes is coming to pass, researchers in Stockholm, Sweden have proof that primates can plan ahead.
From the article:
'Santino the chimpanzee's anti-social behavior stunned both visitors and keepers at the Furuvik Zoo but fascinated researchers because it was so carefully prepared.
According to a report in the journal Current Biology, the 31-year-old alpha male started building his weapons cache in the morning before the zoo opened, collecting rocks and knocking out disks from concrete boulders inside his enclosure. He waited until around midday before he unleashed a "hailstorm" of rocks against visitors, the study said.'"
Bring me that Jane Goodall chick!
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welcome our well perpaired monkey overloards...
-Ours is the wisdom of Solomon, the magic of Merlyn, the fall of Icaris.
Rocks or feces...hmmmm.
Maybe I'll just stick with chairs.
And they call me anti-social next they are going to call me a communist.
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I'm always surprised when science finds out about something I already knew. Now, I know I probably know things that actually aren't true, but sometimes it's downright shocking that people didn't know something. :/
Please stop stalking me, bro.
Intelligent? Maybe. Good aim? Definitely not. He didn't even seriously injure anyone. This is news why?
"For a while, zoo keepers tried locking Santino up in the morning so he couldn't collect ammunition for his assaults, but he remained aggressive. They ultimately decided to castrate him in the autumn last year, but will have to wait until the summer to see if that helps."
Guns don't kill people...uh oh!
"It is normal behavior for alpha males to want to influence their surroundings ... It is extremely frustrating for him that there are people out of his reach who are pointing at him and laughing," Osvath said. "It cannot be good to be so furious all the time."
Now we know why review sites get sued.
Shai Schticks:"You don't make peace with friends, you make peace with enemies"
Clearly not intelligent enough - to really assert his intelligence he ought to be constructing small enclosures for other animals to keep for his own amusement.
Only intelligent animals keep other animals in cages.
Translation: "I'm an intelligent primate who doesn't like being caged up for your amusement."
They must be even more prepared than we originally suspected...
They've hired a translator!
Well, back to rejecting software patent applications.
And they call me anti-social next they are going to call me a communist.
But doesn't anti-socialism lead to anti-communism?
Well, back to rejecting software patent applications.
Just tax the rocks. Problem solved.
Tic-Tac-Toe, Global Thermonuclear War, and relationships all have the same winning move.
Pretty impress CV; I'd hire him.
You get to hire your own management? I'm impressed.
You're assuming he was actually trying to hit someone. Watching humans scream with panic and run away when you throw things at them is funny! Watching them fall down, bleed, and get carried away in a stretcher -- not so funny. He's throwing rocks for the same reason most chimps throw feces -- not because he is trying to injure a spectator, but because it amuses him to see their reaction!
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
Arguably, he demonstrated more foresight and planning than the primates running the investment banks on Wall Street.
Wow I would simply not have made the connection without your helpful comment. Much obliged!
William of Ockham had no beard. The most likely explanation is that it was chewed off by squirrels every morning.
Woah, woah, woah. You're saying that lending enormous amounts of money with extremely high interest rates to people who can't possibly afford to pay it back is a bad idea? Since when? Next you're going to tell me that trickle-down economics doesn't work and that two plus two doesn't equal five (even for very large values of two)! You obviously aren't an economics major.
Ok I giggled. If your cat has a brain the size of a tennis ball then it's got a huge fucking head.
Whenever I've thought an expert in a field I don't know as well is wasting their time, I usually come to realize that I was actually not understanding the situation.
You, or the guy that hands out the grant money..
No, no - I wasn't joking, I was being scathing about the human race. This poor animal is so pissed off about being where it is that it stores up missiles to throw at its assailants. When was the last time you were in that situation?
Sadly, my commentary was interpreted as humour by the moderators, rather than the scalpel-sharp incisive wit that it was. Ah, well...
>> And you cannot represent every statement of concepts in a purely mathematical expression.
> Yes we can, it is the whole point of mathematics.
Had you said that in mathematics, I would have believed you.
Thus, researchers are always on the lookout for situations that can distinguish between the two. Novel situations where instincts wouldn't be expected to apply, pathological situations where instincts would fail if applied, etc.
I wonder, do researchers do this instinctively or is it a cognitive process? If they are always on the lookout for these situations, then that suggests to me that it is instinctive, and that these instincts have helped lead them to succeed as researchers.
No doubt female orangutans are given similar warnings about human males...
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