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Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: WindAndConfusion on Thursday, February 22, 2007, 11:55:54 PM

Title: Chimpanzees 'hunt using spears'
Post by: WindAndConfusion on Thursday, February 22, 2007, 11:55:54 PM

Check it out... Spears 'hunts using umbrella' (http://www.wwtdd.com/post.phtml?pk=1945).

No, wait... chimpanzees 'hunt using spears' (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6387611.stm).

Title: Re: Chimpanzees 'hunt using spears'
Post by: Xessive on Friday, February 23, 2007, 05:11:37 AM

Man, Britney kinda looks like Boy George now!

Also, Chimps are cool.

Title: Re: Chimpanzees 'hunt using spears'
Post by: Pugnate on Friday, February 23, 2007, 05:58:51 AM

haha windandconfusion, I go WWTD a lot. The guy's comments are pretty funny.

Title: Re: Chimpanzees 'hunt using spears'
Post by: Cobra951 on Friday, February 23, 2007, 12:38:31 PM

Yikes!  Must be nice to be rich enough to become a wacko and get away with it.

I saw some documentary once where they showed apes putting sticks into trees and pulling out ants, and then eating them.  The tool thing almost shocked me then.

I just watched a documentary on bonobos (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonobos) last night.  (I hesitated before using Wiki, after the proposed-game thread.)  They are closer to humanity than the typical chimps in some respects, like caring for each other and nurturing.  (The chimps we see all the time are closer to the evil tendencies in humans.)  They also like sex a lot, with multiple partners.  Hehe!

Title: Re: Chimpanzees 'hunt using spears'
Post by: WindAndConfusion on Friday, February 23, 2007, 08:06:51 PM

Bonobos are "pygmy chimpanzees" (pan paniscus) - either a subspecies of chimp or another species in the same genus as the common chimpanzee (p. troglodyte), depending on who you ask. Both are descended from the same lineage that split with our last common ancestor, so it is correct to say that bonobos are the closest living (extant) relatives to common chimps, and all members of the genus Pan are equally closely related to h. sapiens.

This in turn leads to some other (intuitively) surprising results, for example that chimpanzees are more closely related to humans than they are to gorillas.

Title: Re: Chimpanzees 'hunt using spears'
Post by: Pugnate on Friday, February 23, 2007, 08:42:16 PM

Cobra what happened to your Ms.Spears? Life was too good?

Title: Re: Chimpanzees 'hunt using spears'
Post by: Cobra951 on Saturday, February 24, 2007, 03:50:46 PM

She was never my Ms Spears.  She looked and moved very nicely for a while there.  Not anymore.  Ugh!

I read the article on the common chimps and bonobos.  I also read that they're genetically closer to humans than to gorillas.  My point is that the bonobos have a very different disposition from their more commonly known relatives.

Title: Re: Chimpanzees 'hunt using spears'
Post by: WindAndConfusion on Saturday, February 24, 2007, 04:23:10 PM

Quote from: Cobra951 on Saturday, February 24, 2007, 03:50:46 PM

My point is that the bonobos have a very different disposition from their more commonly known relatives.

True. For starters, there's the sex. Bonobos fuck each other all the time.

Title: Re: Chimpanzees 'hunt using spears'
Post by: Ghandi on Saturday, February 24, 2007, 05:49:29 PM

Quote from: Pugnate on Friday, February 23, 2007, 08:42:16 PM

Cobra what happened to your Ms.Spears? Life was too good?

That was Folk.