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Zoo chimp planned a stone attack

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A male chimpanzee in a Swedish zoo planned hundreds of stone-throwing attacks on zoo visitors, according to researchers.
Keepers at Furuvik Zoo found that the chimp collected and stored stones that he would later use as missiles.
Further, the chimp learned to recognise how and when parts of his concrete enclosure could be pulled apart to fashion further projectiles.
The findings are reported in the journal Current Biology.
There has been scant evidence in previous research that animals can plan for future events.
Crucial to the current study is the fact that Santino, a chimpanzee at the zoo in the city north of Stockholm, collected the stones in a calm state, prior to the zoo opening in the morning.
The launching of the stones occurred hours later - during dominance displays to zoo visitors - with Santino in an "agitated" state.
This suggests that Santino was anticipating a future mental state - an ability that has been difficult to definitively prove in animals, according to Mathias Osvath, a cognitive scientist from Lund University in Sweden and author of the new research.
"We've done experimental studies, and the chimps in my mind show very clearly that they do plan for future needs, but it has been argued that perhaps this was an experimental artefact," Dr Osvath told BBC News........
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Well this is more evidence Chimps are a hell of a lot like us and should be treated with more rights IMO.
 
Tachyon Shield said:
Well this is more evidence Chimps are a hell of a lot like us and should be treated with more rights IMO.
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This sort of behavior seems like reason instead to go up to their cages and say, "We know you're smart like us, but you planned to attack us, so you get no more rights. Screw you, monkey. Screw you!"

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When it's fired from THESE GUNS.

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Tachyon Shield said:
A male chimpanzee in a Swedish zoo planned hundreds of stone-throwing attacks on zoo visitors, according to researchers.
Keepers at Furuvik Zoo found that the chimp collected and stored stones that he would later use as missiles.
Further, the chimp learned to recognise how and when parts of his concrete enclosure could be pulled apart to fashion further projectiles.
The findings are reported in the journal Current Biology.
There has been scant evidence in previous research that animals can plan for future events.
Crucial to the current study is the fact that Santino, a chimpanzee at the zoo in the city north of Stockholm, collected the stones in a calm state, prior to the zoo opening in the morning.
The launching of the stones occurred hours later - during dominance displays to zoo visitors - with Santino in an "agitated" state.
This suggests that Santino was anticipating a future mental state - an ability that has been difficult to definitively prove in animals, according to Mathias Osvath, a cognitive scientist from Lund University in Sweden and author of the new research.
"We've done experimental studies, and the chimps in my mind show very clearly that they do plan for future needs, but it has been argued that perhaps this was an experimental artefact," Dr Osvath told BBC News........
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LINK to rest of story.

Well this is more evidence Chimps are a hell of a lot like us and should be treated with more rights IMO.
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They should be allowed to marry.
 
There's no doubt that Chimps are very intelligent. But they also tend toward behavioral problems. Like attacking and killing people.
 
RJDiogenes said:
There's no doubt that Chimps are very intelligent. But they also tend toward behavioral problems. Like attacking and killing people.
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Well the last chimp attack was because the chimp was on some strong medication which possibly had an effect on the chimps mental state. But if chimps are like Humans then what's so weird about chimps attacking and killing people? Humans do it every single day.
 
Beware the beast Man, for he is the Devil's pawn. Alone among God's primates, he kills for sport or lust or greed. Yea, he will murder his brother to possess his brother's land. Let him not breed in great numbers, for he will make a desert of his home and yours. Shun him; drive him back into his jungle lair, for he is the harbinger of death.
 
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