Slashdot Mirror
Chimps Have a Built-In GPS
destinyland writes "European researchers have discovered that chimpanzees have a built-in mental GPS, keeping 'a geometric mental map of their home range, moving from point to point in nearly straight lines.' Using GPS, two primatologists followed 15 chimpanzees for 217 days, and determined that the apes were 'using a mental map built around geometric coordinates.' They're not just identifying landmarks in their surroundings, and in fact, even when swinging through trees, the chimps planned out their route several trees in advance. Here's the paper in the journal Animal Behavior."
Yes Chimps do have GPS
They steal them from cars in places like Newark, NJ, Camden NJ , Philadelphia PA And New York City
and Yes they might sell them for $31.50 for Drugs.
What? "Smarter" has no connection with evolution. If evolution were perfect, we'd be able to see in the dark as well as cats. Evolution is just "good enough". Why should mammals need that kind of geolocation? We're smart enough to get along without it, so it either never evolved or was never an advantageous trait for mammals. For birds and insects? Finding your way back to your yearly breeding grounds from hundreds or thousands of miles away is quite advantageous. It makes sense that that trait would be selected for.
Go get an education before you start talking about evolution. You only show your ignorance otherwise.
My blog. Good stuff (when I remember to update it). Read it.