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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."
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.
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.
Oh no, that's not a banana.
-g
He should be a gorilla warfare expert in no time!
"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."
Ceci n'est pas un sig.
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.