Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Chimp Planned Rock Attack On Zoo Visitors


ABC-Researchers say a chimpanzee at a Swedish zoo has proven that apes are as capable of forward planning as humans.


Zoo minders have uncovered hundreds of stone caches being used by the chimp to hoard ammunition to hurl at visitors.


The chimp at the centre of this study, an alpha male in his 30s called Santino, lives at Furuvik Zoo to the north of Stockholm.


His war against the visiting public began in the 1990s, when he got into the habit of collecting stones from the moat surrounding his artificial island.
Santino would stack these up in the morning and then wait for visiting time when the bombardment would begin.


However the chimp was not only capable of this unusual example of forward planning. He also managed to break lumps of concrete into manageable sized missiles by checking for their weak points.


I couldn't like this chimp anymore if I tried. Any monkey can shit on his hand and throw it at people. This guy was a pioneer that took it to another level. He could eat someones face and I'd still have a soft spot in my heart for him.

2 comments:

  1. Some animals are clearly too smart to be kept in captivity. I've met quite a few people that aren't that intelligent.

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  2. Kramer: "Hey. Well, I just spoke to your girlfriend."
    George: Girlfriend, yeah, right.
    Kramer: "Anyway, she asked me to apologize to Barry."
    George: "Barry?"

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