Posted on 01/02/2012 2:07:38 PM PST by decimon
Eagerly he collects wood from the ground, snaps the branches into small pieces and carefully balances them in a pile. Then, taking care not to burn himself, he gently strikes a match and gets ready for a fry-up.
Like all red-blooded males, Kanzi loves messing around with a barbecue. But then, as these extraordinary pictures show, Kanzi is no man. He is a bonobo - pygmy chimpanzee - and his love of fire is challenging the way that we think about our closest relatives in the animal kingdom.
For although bonobo apes and larger chimpanzees use twigs and leaves as tools, none has ever shown such skill for cooking food.
Dr Savage-Rumbaugh, of the Great Ape Trust, in Des Moines, Iowa, adds: ‘Kanzi makes fire because he wants to. He used to watch the film Quest For Fire when he was very young which was about early man struggling to control fire. He watched it spellbound over and over hundreds of times.’
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
When I was very young, I too was struck spellbound by Daryl Hannah.
The uplift wars by David Brin
You’re right. I was thinking of Clan of the Cave Bear.
...admit it, *you* thought about it too!
Cheers!
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Thanks decimon.He used to watch the film Quest For Fire when he was very young which was about early man struggling to control fire. He watched it spellbound over and over hundreds of times.Good thing it wasn't "Last Tango in Paris", eh? Not pingin', I want to get to bed at a decent hour. ;') |
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Are you sure about that? The party, I mean....
kinda like the OWS-ers... they LOVE money but have no idea how to make it on their own
Whatever you do, don't pass Kanzi the butter.
Given the way homo sapiens has screwed up even their own societies, I figure the apes would go third party and build new voting blocs.
Look it up, you'll be glad you did.
Apes or whatever: they can barbeque?, but more important, can they tailgate properly at your average bowl-eligible football team event? Are they potentially major donors? Would they be interested in marrying a celebrity for a few weeks? Can they join class-action lawsuits. Are they “outside kin” of humans who prefer not to acknowlege their no-account relatives. Can a good sitcom or reality tv show be made about a sizzler simian? Through DNA testing, can we figure out which VIP’s they are related to, not that anyone should give a shi’ite (unless the critter proves to be one), or is running for major political office where age is the only remaining initial qualification
I don’t want to know about Kanzi’s past.
If you're a LEO, I believe the modern metaphor is "like shooting dogs on a chain."
Oh, my! That's all we need, another Kenyan in the White House!
Rest assured, if apes ever do learn to BBQ, and they make their own homemade BBQ sauce, I bet I know what the “secret ingredient” in it will be.(*)
(*) Beer. It is always beer. Though those who love to BBQ get unhappy when you tell them that you know what their “secret ingredient” is.
You have a point but since the first human figured out how to make fire how many other humans figured it out on their own and how many just learned it from someone who learned it?
You have a point but since the first human figured out how to make fire how many other humans figured it out on their own and how many just learned it from someone who learned it?
I was mostly trying to point out mans ingenuity. Even today, if there is a problem humans (some humans) need to solve it. That’s one of our best qualities. Even though only one came up with harassing fire, another came up with pottery, yet another came up with better shetlers and so on.
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