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Stone-Throwing Chimp Back In the News With Better Plan
sciencehabit writes "Three years ago, a stone-throwing chimpanzee named Santino jolted the research community by providing some of the strongest evidence yet that non-humans could plan ahead. Santino, a resident of the Furuvik Zoo in Gävle, Sweden, calmly gathered stones in the mornings and put them into neat piles, apparently saving them to hurl at visitors when the zoo opened as part of angry and aggressive 'dominance displays.' But some researchers were skeptical that Santino really was planning for a future emotional outburst. Now Santino is back in the scientific literature, the subject of new claims that he has begun to conceal the stones so he can get a closer aim at his targets—further evidence that he is thinking ahead like humans do."
Well yeah, if humans threw stones at people we'd put them in a cage too called "jail"
Humans who plan their aggressive dominance displays ahead of time also tend to receive longer periods of imprisonment as well(unless elected to suitably high office, or endorsed therefrom, of course)...
Except we call his relative's cages "cubes."
Now, excuse me, I need to go have my banana for lunch.
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He isn't just planning ahead, and then coming up with a new plan. He's being deceptive.
And what surer sign of intelligence do we have?
Having the qualities necessary to be an attorney, politician, or investment banker does not constitute intelligence.
Would you claim it is just instinct that causes cats to lurk on stairs, and they're not planning for when a person walks by?
I tried this at work but the custodial staff kept finding my little piles of rocks and removing them from my office. Sometimes it doesn't pay to plan ahead.
Alex, I'll take keybindings not used by Emacs for $400....
So the detention without a trial that was approved in the US is just an extension of what was already done to the monkeys? It's nice to know the US is working towards interspecies equality!
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No. Cats are obviously evil genius masterminds who have plans stretching from the dawn of time until the re-awakening of the Great Old Ones. No instinct - just pure, unadulterated malevolence.
they're in sweden. they might have figured out it's not worth escaping to the wild.
the dude still needs a way to show off aggressive dominance to get chicks though, regardless of imprisonment.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
Oh no, that's not a banana.
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Or start leaving guns around in his enclosure until he learns how to defend himself and starts eating the locals
... still waiting for this free-as-in-beer free beer I keep hearing about.
MY banana break is at 11:45, and we start throwing feces around 3:12 pm. Unless the hot receptionist is here, then we all run around with our chests puffed up...
BRB, I need to jump on daves desk and scream at him.
Just another day in Corporate america.
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From inside or outside the cage, tough guy?
I swear to God...I swear to God! That is NOT how you treat your human!
He should be a gorilla warfare expert in no time!
You should be punished for that.
"This is a cat. He doesn't hate you because you're black, brown or yellow, or because you're a homosexual, or a Republican, or a Democrat. He hates you because he's a cat."
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Quick! Start throwing stones!
Every time I start to have faith in humanity, I ruin it by driving to work between 7 and 8 am.
I support the right to arm bears.
"He's lost in a 'floyd hole"
You should be punished for that.
Quick! Start throwing stones!
First let's find one of us who hasn't done anything wrong. Then we'll let him throw the first stone.
Quite right, proper nouns especially are exempt. Could you Xerox your thesis on the subject for me, or should I Google it?
All living languages continuously evolve through such abuse, and no doubt the early adopters always look like idiots. No sense getting upset about it.
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