Chimps Use Spears!

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A team led by Iowa State University anthropology professor Jill Pruetz witnessed the spearing of a bushbaby in Fongoli, Senegal, during an observation of chimpanzees from March 2005 to July 2006. In a study being released Thursday in the online version of the journal Current Biology, Pruetz documents 22 cases of chimps using spear-like tools to hunt bushbabies (a small primate that lives in hollow branches or tree trunks).

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Posted by AwesomePossum at 2/24/2007 2:41:28 PM | 10 comments

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Setzer (Level 8 Cannibal) at 3/3/2007 10:10:32 PM
When I read this I thought chipmunks :(

skeddles (Level 11 Psychopath) at 2/26/2007 6:50:40 PM
tomorrow bush will invest billions of dollars in protecting our nations people against the dangers of spear-weilding chimps

AwesomePossum (Level 1 Thug) at 2/26/2007 3:42:09 PM

Here is the correct link, or here is the url:

http://www.comcast.net/news/science/index.jsp?cat=SCIENCE&fn=/2007/02/23/594689.html


schrumpfkopf (Level 1 Depressed) at 2/26/2007 8:25:38 AM
those chimps are like 2 million years late :)

AwesomePossum (Level 1 Thug) at 2/26/2007 8:23:15 AM
How come the link doesnt work now?

veemobil (Level 2 Flatfoot) at 2/25/2007 11:15:58 PM
My cat tweets at birds.

sedgemonkey (Level 10 Master Sniper) at 2/25/2007 9:46:49 PM
Fixed the link URL.

Blick (Level 6 Commander) at 2/25/2007 8:07:57 PM
That'd be primates, silent sniper, not "primeapes". It's not that sick really, primates are a diverse group so it's nothing like cannibalism. If you look at the Euarchontoglires superorder, it's apparently shows close genetic matchings with rabbits, primates, shrews, lemurs etc. Perhaps not as closely related as a bushbaby and chimpanzee, but a chimpanzee eating a rabbit wouldn't weird me out since we've been doing the same for thousands of years.

I fucking love biology.

silent sniper (Level 1 Depressed) at 2/25/2007 7:29:04 PM
primeapes eating primeapes? sick

skeddles (Level 11 Psychopath) at 2/25/2007 7:00:53 PM
im scared

and the link doesnt say anything about monkeys

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