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22 February 2007

Oh, it's on the blue. Whoops.
posted by chrismear 22 February | 17:03
"Back to the drawing board again in terms of trying to define how humans are special," says Pruetz.

Give me a call when they can open this damned childproof bottle.
posted by black bile 22 February | 17:05
Ok, so I read "bushbabies" and thought "human babies that life in the bush", not bushbabies. It's a lot more disturbing to think that the apes have finally started hunting us.
posted by muddgirl 22 February | 17:09
OK, so Google's I'm Feeling Lucky "bushbabies" leads to a page on reproduction. I should have read it before linking to it.
posted by muddgirl 22 February | 17:11
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posted by mrmoonpie 22 February | 17:19
But bushbabies are primates, no? For some reason, that makes a difference to me.
posted by danf 22 February | 17:24
"It appears that the chimps have learnt a grizzly method of slowing them down."
So the chimps learned some new tricks from watching bears or the proofreaders dropped the ball.
posted by ooga_booga 22 February | 17:34
I remember being shocked and horrified seeing some David Attenborough wildlife programme a few years ago which shows a gang of chimps hunting, killing and eating an antelope. Until then I thought they only ate bananas.
posted by essexjan 22 February | 17:47
Danf, bushbabies are indeed primates, but in a very different part of the tree.
There's a reason that the distinction is made between "lesser primates" (monkeys and lemurs and bushbabies, etc.) and "greater primates" (chimps and gorillas and humans, oh my). We're much further along on the evolutionary scale.

Note that further down in the story, it mentions that other chimp groups hunt green monkeys.

posted by me3dia 22 February | 17:53
Jan, they'll even eat each other!

I'll take a bonobo over a chimp any day!
posted by Specklet 22 February | 18:04
Damn.

When they figure out spoken language, architecture, metalworking . . .

Aw, man. I don't wanna be around for that.

Payback is a motherfucker.
posted by jason's_planet 22 February | 22:55
Until then I thought they only ate bananas.

Chimpanzees are not exactly the most charming and gracious of primates.

They're also amazingly strong for their size. A little chimpanzee can break a man's arm the way you or I can break a pencil.
posted by jason's_planet 22 February | 23:01
Ah, Oconomowoc. || Anybody else on Twitter?

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