Hunting chimps!

[Gangrel]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0702230043feb23,1,5595778.story?coll=chi-news-hed


Using their hands and teeth, the chimpanzees were repeatedly seen tearing the side branches off long straight sticks, peeling back the bark and sharpening one end, the researchers report in Thursday's online issue of the journal Current Biology. Then, grasping the weapon in a "power grip," they jabbed into tree-branch hollows where bush babies--small monkeylike mammals--sleep. "It was really alarming how forceful it was," said lead researcher Jill Pruetz of Iowa State University in Ames, adding that it reminded her of the murderous shower scene in the Alfred Hitchcock movie "Psycho." "It was kind of scary."

:eek:

[oddlycalm]

Good thing they don't have a nuclear weapons program...

oc

[emjaya]

I don't see this ending well.:)

http://hello.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/ending.jpg

[rabbit]

I don't see this ending well.:)

http://hello.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/ending.jpg

:laugh:

[Gangrel]

I don't see this ending well.



:rofl:

[TrueBrit]

You damned dirty apes!!!

[G.]

What's strange about this, is that it's the girl monkies doing the killing with the spears, not the males. Draw your own conclusions.

[TravelGal]

"The female of the species is more deadly than the male" So said Rudyard Kipling (1865 to 1936). He might have been onto something.

[Opposite Lock]

Now for how to get one of these delivered to 16th and Jonestown…

Receptionist: “Mr. George, there is a special delivery out here from a Mr. Kalkhoven, along with a note that says ‘Enjoy your new helper monkey’. Should I have them bring it in?”

[RichK]

Scott Adams' blog today (http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2007/02/disturbing_deve.html) :laugh:

[Gnam]

Only the female chimps make spears and stab these adorable little bushbabies.

http://img329.imageshack.us/img329/5228/britneyto0.jpg

[RichK]

http://img329.imageshack.us/img329/5228/britneyto0.jpg

:laugh: Brings an all new meaning to Britney SPEARS... :D

[Gangrel]

Scott Adams' blog today (http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2007/02/disturbing_deve.html) :laugh:


Arthur C. Clark famously said, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” But in my house, any sufficiently advanced technology is broken, and no one knows how to fix it. I think we humans have hit the wall when it comes to using tools. I don’t mean to worry you, but somewhere, in a distant jungle, there’s a chimp chewing on a stick and making a Phillips screwdriver.

:rofl: