Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/03/09/international/i090252D29.DTL&tsp=1" target="_blank">http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/...TL&tsp=1</a> >>A canny chimpanzee who calmly collected a stash of rocks and then hurled them at zoo visitors in fits of rage has confirmed that apes can plan ahead just like humans, a Swedish study said Monday. 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. "These observations convincingly show that our fellow apes do consider the future in a very complex way," said the author of the report, Lund University Ph.D. student Mathias Osvath.<< You bet they consider the future. And it involves us reduced to roving packs of crop-marauding pests or as stuffed displays in their museums. This is how it all starts!
Originally Posted By Autopia Deb <---picturing 2ooney in a loin cloth screaming "You dang dirty ape!"
Originally Posted By DAR Well I figured this would happen. We're not the far advanced in robotics for the Robot Apocalypse to occur. Though I do worry about the impending Zombie Apocalypse.
Originally Posted By mawnck >>Santino the chimpanzee's anti-social behavior stunned both visitors and keepers<< Dang dittoheads ...
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan I will say that rocks are somewhat of an improvement over what apes in zoos usually fling at visitors.
Originally Posted By avro_imagineer You know if you aren't careful we must just find ourself pounding our fists on a beach in front of decrepit French made buildings. It's the Gorilla's you have to be worried, they're ruthless.
Originally Posted By dshyates I am always astounded that humans underestimate the intelligence of other animals. Heck, my wolf cross was smarter than my ex-wife.
Originally Posted By Sara Tonin "You dang dirty ape!" ^^^^ Once that has been said, there just nothing else to be said.
Originally Posted By Inspector 57 <<Once that has been said, there just nothing else to be said.>> C'mon. You really think we've milked this one for all it's worth?! ---------------------------- [Six days later. The Director of the Furuvik Zoo, Daav Oosterben, stands in front of Santino's cage with Haal Stumgaardt, the Zoo's Manager of Technology and Operations.] Oosterben [obviously agitated and anxious]: This have been occuring for five days! Look at this ape! Today is worse! Every day he is worse! Stumgaardt [calmly]: Yes. He is very upset. O: He will kill our Zoo! You must to do something! You must to do something very FAST! I do not care the cost! Take away all the stones! Take them! Make him unable to do this! S: I'm sorry, Daav. I'm afraid I can't do that.
Originally Posted By Inspector 57 <<Once that has been said, there just nothing else to be said.>> C'mon. You really think we've milked this one for all it's worth?! ---------------------------- If *apes* can learn to plan for the future, maybe there's hope yet for the Republicans.
Originally Posted By oc_dean Hey .. you know ... there's such a thing as fat white apes too. Take a look: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsL_Qf-3cWE" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v..._Qf-3cWE</a>
Originally Posted By oc_dean And a few choice words for that albino ape: From Master Jedi Qui-Gon Jin: "The ability to speak does not make you intelligent!"
Originally Posted By avro_imagineer <- Not I, come to think of looking in the mirror, am I Ape or Man? I'll go with Ape since they'll eventually rule the world.
