Tuesday, March 10, 2009

They've Got It Wrong. . .

Dang Swedes. They're obviously enablers:

Study: Belligerent chimp proves animals make plans

In part:
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. "It implies that they have a highly developed consciousness, including lifelike mental simulations of potential events."
NO! It proves that chimps are mean nasty vicious brutes just like humans. Ah, but karma caught up to Mr. Hairy Fastball:
For a while, zoo keepers tried locking Santino up in the morning so he couldn't collect ammunition for his assaults, but he remained aggressive. They ultimately decided to castrate him in the autumn last year. . .

2 comments:

Bob said...

For a while, zoo keepers tried locking Santino up in the morning so he couldn't collect ammunition for his assaults, but he remained aggressive. They ultimately decided to castrate him in the autumn last year. . .

Shhh, don't give Obama and Holder ideas!

J.R.Shirley said...

"They ultimately decided to castrate him in the autumn last year. . ."

That'll teach him! Reminds me of a Steve Miller song.