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 Posted: Fri May 11, 2012 2:53 am Post subject: Swedish Chimpanzee is an Asshole |
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| Quote: | "Santino," a male chimpanzee at Furuvik Zoo in Sweden, is devising increasingly complex attacks against zoo visitors.
At first Santino was famous for throwing rocks and other projectiles at visitors who annoyed him. Now he has improved his technique, which requires spontaneous innovation for future deception. Researcher Mathias Osvath, lead author of a paper about Santino in PLoS ONE, explained what the clever chimp did:
"After a visitor group had left the compound area, Santino went inside the enclosure and brought a good-sized heap of hay that he placed near the visitor's section, and immediately after that he put stones under it," Osvath said.
"He also appeared to have placed projectiles behind, just before he went in after the hay. After this, he sat down beside the hay and waited. When the visitors came back, he waited until they were close by and, without any preceding display, he threw stones at the crowd."
Osvath, who is the scientific director of the Lund University Primate Research Station Furuvik, and colleague Elin Karvonen noticed the behavior while studying the elderly chimp, who is the dominant male in his exhibit at the Swedish zoo.
The calculated surprise attacks on visitors demonstrate very advanced thinking usually only associated with humans.
Osvath said, "What is interesting is that he made these preparations when the visitors were out of sight, and also that he incorporated innovations into the behavior."
"What makes this a bit special is that he actually had not experienced before what he seemed to anticipate," Osvath added. "He, in a sense, produced a future outcome instead of just preparing for a scenario that had previously been re-occurring reliably."
The researchers believe that the recombination of previous experiences coupled with innovation "is a good sign of the rather sophisticated foresight abilities in chimps." |
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/05/10/zoo-chimp-makes-elaborate-plots-to-attack-humans/
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| Quote: | | "What makes this a bit special is that he actually had not experienced before what he seemed to anticipate," Osvath added. "He, in a sense, produced a future outcome instead of just preparing for a scenario that had previously been re-occurring reliably." |
The chimp must have seen Planet of the Apes recently.
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| Posted: Fri May 11, 2012 3:19 am Post subject: |
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| He needs an iPad. |
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| richk449 wrote: | | He needs an iPad. |
Occupy Zoo Street?
The l33t h@xors of Anonymonkey?
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| Posted: Fri May 11, 2012 3:48 am Post subject: |
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I bet he doesn't have an impractical, useless and overpriced degree.
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He needs a good punch in the head. Although that would probably set off the animal rights actitards. But you'd punch a human for the same. 
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| aidanjt wrote: | | He needs a good punch in the head. Although that would probably set off the animal rights actitards. But you'd punch a human for the same. |
Not if you put them in an enclosed space and charged admission to eye-fuck them. You'd have to expect rocks to be thrown! |
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| nomilieu wrote: | | aidanjt wrote: | | He needs a good punch in the head. Although that would probably set off the animal rights actitards. But you'd punch a human for the same. |
Not if you put them in an enclosed space and charged admission to eye-fuck them. You'd have to expect rocks to be thrown! |
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| energyman76b wrote: | | nomilieu wrote: | | aidanjt wrote: | | He needs a good punch in the head. Although that would probably set off the animal rights actitards. But you'd punch a human for the same. |
Not if you put them in an enclosed space and charged admission to eye-fuck them. You'd have to expect rocks to be thrown! |
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Free maid service, swimming pool, large patio...
What the scientists aren't realizing is that the chimp didn't come up with this behavior on his own. He almost certainly learned it from 11-year-old boys sneakily throwing stones at him. I know because I was one once (11 year old boy, that is), and I inadvertently taught a chimpanzee to spit at people.
That chimp is probably still there, at Parc Safari in Hemmingford, Quebec, still spitting at people, and making "Get off my lawn" screeches and gestures.
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| energyman76b wrote: | | free good food, free medical service and sex. All in exchange for some oggling. Sign me up! |
I'd need a computer and a racquetball court, but yeah, that'd be the life! |
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