Still banging the rocks together........

[patgund]

Not very surprising. When are they going to get around to reclassifying chimps under the Homo genus??

Still, I have to wonder if a 1x4x9 slab of black stone was found in the area as well......

Chimpanzees 'hunt using spears'

"Chimpanzees in Senegal have been observed making and using wooden spears to hunt other primates, according to a study in the journal Current Biology.

Researchers documented 22 cases of chimps fashioning tools to jab at smaller primates sheltering in cavities of hollow branches or tree trunks.

The report's authors, Jill Pruetz and Paco Bertolani, said the finding could have implications for human evolution.

Chimps had not been previously observed hunting other animals with tools."

Comments

[selenite.livejournal.com]

They've used sticks to get termites, sounds like this could have grown from that.

[sweet-kitty-gal.livejournal.com]

suddenly i have a horrible urge to sharpen sticks with my teeth.

[henglaar.livejournal.com]

Okay, so they've demonstrated that chimpanzees use tools, make tools, run movie production companies and run for political office. It's time that we bumped up their status a bit. (Or down, depending on how exalted you feel that homo sapiens is.)

[omcintyre.livejournal.com]

I couldn't agree more.