Science

[Insidious Rex]

Originally Posted by inked

By the by, don't chimps and other animals exhibit tool use in obtaining food? I seem to remember some amazing tool usage experiments to enable obtaining bananas for chimps. Aren't stones a tool like that in this case?

Theyve shown the ability to use items at hand in pursuit of an immediate goal (like smashing a nut on a rock or poking termites out of a hole with a stick) and yes they certainly can memorize basic picture patterns on a touch screen computer to earn a banana but the concept here is somewhat unprecedented from what I understand. This chimp purposefully went out of his way to obtain tools to be used for a later purpose. That hasnt really been shown to be typical chimp behavior. It requires a level of abstract thinking and long term planning which most primate experts had not previously thought possible from a chimp.

My thinking is that a large black monolith from space visited our chimp friend one night… Clearly space aliens are conspiring to evolve chimpanzees and de-evolve us! Planet of the Apes is just around the corner people!! Wake up before its too late!!