Killer Chimps Make Spears, Hunt Bushbabies

Fox News ^ | Thursday, February 22, 2007 | Charles Q. Choi

[Sopater]

Chimpanzees are capable of making spears to hunt other primates and have been seen using the weapons to apparently kill bushbabies for meat, scientists announced today.

The researchers based their findings on observations of omnivorous chimpanzees that dwell in savannahs similar to those from which humanity's ancestors are thought to have emerged.

"It is not adult males, but young chimpanzees, including adolescent females, who are exhibiting this behavior," Jill Pruetz, a primatologist at Iowa State University, told LiveScience.

"This has important implications for how we think about the evolution of tool use in our own species," Pruetz added. "We have tended to emphasize the role of adult males in hunting, and this research supports the assertion that we should not ignore females and other individuals."

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Article on the same topic from the BBC: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1789332/posts.

[Brilliant]

They are obviously evolving before our eyes, and we need to watch out or they will soon catch up with us.

[EagleUSA]

Hmmm. Maybe about 1000 of these turned loose at the Democrat National Convention -- they would blend right in with the crowd....

[ApplegateRanch]

Should have been obvious.

Females are (almost) always more vicious, no matter the species involved.

[Sopater]

"Still, this involves significantly less energy than in chasing down monkeys, so it is not surprising that it evolved," Pruetz said.

Who says it evolved? - Chimps May Have Learned to Use Tools Thousands of Years Ago

It seems they've been using tools as long as anyone can remember...

[Sopater]

we need to watch out or they will soon catch up with us

They don't need to catch up with us, they only need to use their spears to kill us while being protected by the gov't so we can't kill them back.

[Kimmers]

Blame it on global warming...

[HEY4QDEMS]

They are obviously evolving before our eyes, and we need to watch out or they will soon catch up with us.


Nonsense!

[seowulf]

Killer chimps roaming the peaceful savannahs...when, oh when, are we going to have spear control. Those poor bush-babies. Do it for the children.

[clamper1797]

Damn dirty apes

[Brilliant]

You joke, but mark my words, the chimps will soon be getting better reading scores in the standardized tests, and the libs will tell us that it's because the chimps believe in evolution while we're still hyping the Bible.

[martin_fierro]

Killer Chimps Make Spears, Hunt Bushbabies

I'd like to see 'em try to get past Secret Service.

[Eternal_Bear]

They love to watch porn too.

[trisham]

LOL!

[Matchett-PI]

"Global warming fuels speedy e-v-o-l-u..."

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[Conservative4Ever]

Maybe they will have the answer for global warming?

[lilylangtree]

Killer DemoncRATS hunt Bushbabies was my first thought when I read the headlines.

[Tax-chick]

have been seen using the weapons to apparently kill bushbabies for meat

Well, are they, or aren't they?

Please surrender your Adverbial License.

[azhenfud]

We need to stop them now. They'll soon have yellow-cake and WMD's and decimate neighboring primates.