Tópico: Chimpanzé em zoológico produz e armazena munição para atirar contra visitantes

[Buckaroo Banzai]

Chimp who threw stones at zoo visitors showed human trait, says scientist

Assembling ammunition in advance reveals ape's unsuspected ability to plan for future



...Santino, a 31-year-old male at Furuvik zoo, may be the first animal to exhibit an unambiguous ability to plan for the future, a behaviour many scientists argue is unique to humans. Forward planning takes considerable cognitive skills, because it requires an animal to envisage future events it will have to deal with.

Santino would get agitated when the first groups of visitors arrived at his enclosure in the morning, and would start hurling stones at the spectators. When the zookeepers investigated, they found that, while the zoo was closed, Santino had been busy making piles of ammunition, and returned to them to resupply.

To catch the chimp in action, one zookeeper hid in a room overlooking the enclosure and observed the ape's behaviour before the zoo gates opened each morning. She saw Santino dragging stones from a protective moat that surrounded his island home, before placing them in piles. Further covert surveillance of the ape revealed he spent some time tapping areas of concrete floor with his fist. Occasionally, the animal would thump harder, releasing chunks of concrete that he broke into rough discs.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/mar/09/chimp-zoo-stones-science



The report in the March 9 issue of the research journal Current Biology highlights a decade of observations in a zoo of a male chimpanzee calmly collecting stones and fashioning concrete discs that he would later hurl at zoo visitors.

“These observations convincingly show that our fellow apes do consider the fu­ture in a very complex way,” said Mathias Osvath of Lund University in Swe­den.
“It implies that they have a highly developed consciousness, including life-like mental simulations of potential events. They most probably have an ‘inner world’ like we have when reviewing past episodes of our lives or thinking of days to come. When wild chimps collect stones or go out to war, they probably plan this in advance. I would guess that they plan much of their everyday be­havior.”

http://www.world-science.net/othernews/090310_chimp.htm

[Stéfano]

Quando um criacionista perguntar: "se evolução existe, como não vemos macacos no zoológico virando humanos ? ", cite esse chimpanzé. O próximo passo evolucionário seria criar um deus...

[Buckaroo Banzai]

Algo mais antigo, mas ainda interessante e relacionado:


Orangutan from Borneo photographed using a spear tool to fish

    “a male orangutan, clinging precariously to overhanging branches, flails the water with a pole, trying desperately to spear a passing fish…

    The extraordinary image, a world exclusive, was taken in Borneo on the island of Kaja…

    This individual had seen locals fishing with spears on the Gohong River.

    Although the method required too much skill for him to master, he was later able to improvise by using the pole to catch fish already trapped in the locals’ fishing lines.”

http://primatology.net/2008/04/29/orangutan-photographed-using-tool-as-spear-to-fish/

[Dr. Manhattan]

Quando um criacionista perguntar: "se evolução existe, como não vemos macacos no zoológico virando humanos ? ", cite esse chimpanzé. O próximo passo evolucionário seria criar um deus...

Como diria o bibliotecário da Universidade Invisível*: Ook ook ook ook!
(Traduçao: Quem disse que eu quero virar humano?)



*Pra quem conhece os livros do Terry Pratchett

[biscoito1r]

Essa foto do orangotango parece photoshop

[Gaúcho]

Mais um pouco e eles estarão nos escravizando!

[Buckaroo Banzai]

[Gaúcho]

Pelo que notei, ele não afiou a ponta da "lança". Amador.

[Nyx]

Mais um pouco e eles estarão nos escravizando!

Contemple o futuro:

[Bruno Coelho]

Chewbacca?