Chimps Plan

[James Brody]

And Dick Wrangham will write another book...

From "My Way"

"Mar 9, 3:45 PM (ET)
"By MALIN RISING

"STOCKHOLM (AP) - 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."

Http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090309/D96QN3P01.html
Also http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/20...stones-science

[ToddStark]

Poor Santino showed us that apes have a quality that we generally assumed distinguishes human beings, they can close their eyes and imagine things differently than they are ...

... so we cut his balls off.

[James Brody]

This reminds me of a joke about a race horse and how he reacted when the crowd yelled, "They're off!"