Stone-Throwing Chimp Back In the News With Better Plan 235
sciencehabit writes "Three years ago, a stone-throwing chimpanzee named Santino jolted the research community by providing some of the strongest evidence yet that non-humans could plan ahead. Santino, a resident of the Furuvik Zoo in Gävle, Sweden, calmly gathered stones in the mornings and put them into neat piles, apparently saving them to hurl at visitors when the zoo opened as part of angry and aggressive 'dominance displays.' But some researchers were skeptical that Santino really was planning for a future emotional outburst. Now Santino is back in the scientific literature, the subject of new claims that he has begun to conceal the stones so he can get a closer aim at his targets—further evidence that he is thinking ahead like humans do."
evidence that he is thinking ahead like humans... (Score:5, Insightful)
learning to lie (Score:5, Insightful)
He isn't just planning ahead, and then coming up with a new plan. He's being deceptive.
Yay for science! (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Bullwinkle never knew (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:evidence that he is thinking ahead like humans. (Score:5, Insightful)
Well yeah, if humans threw stones at people we'd put them in a cage too called "jail"
Usually the way that works is you throw the stones first and then get put in a cage. Not the other way around.
Stone-Throwing Chimpanzee Lawyer (Score:5, Insightful)
Your honor, I'm a chimpanzee. Your scientists saw me stacking stones and then hiding them and so they sent me to law school. Your world frightens and confuses me! When someone sends me a text message on my iPhone I wonder, "are there tiny people inside typing it?" I don't know. But I do know this: when someone like my client slips and falls on the sidewalk in front of a public library, he is entitled to two million dollars in compensatory damages and two million in punitive damages. Thank you.