Re: Is Oreopithicus the Aquatic Ape Link?

From: Rich Travsky (_at_hotmMOVEail.com)
Date: 02/21/05 

Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 23:43:38 -0700

Su Solomon wrote:
>
> Rich Travsky wrote:
> >
> > Algis Kuliukas wrote:
> > > [...]
> > > The point is: If Hunt had observed wild bonobos at Lomako, rather than
> > > wild chimps at Gombe, he might have published a paper supporting the
> > > wading hypothesis, rather than the postural feeding hypothesis, because
> > > wading would very clearly have topped the list of behavioural contexts
> > > which elicit the significantly greater levels of bipedalism observed
> > > there - and that was the major justification used in the JHE paper.
> >
> > Lomako...
> >
> > From de Waal and Lanting's "Bonobo: The Forgotten Ape", chapter 3:
> >
> > In September 1995, I interviewed the ethologists Barbara Fruth and
> > Gottfried Hohmann, who have worked in Lomako Forest since 1990.
> > ...
> > Fruth: [... bonobos eating tiny crustaceans in streams ...]
> > The apes sometimes wade for hours through the stream bed.
> >
> > Frans de Waal: Bipedally?
>
> You left out this:
>
> "Fruth: [Laughing wildly, knowing the idea that I am referring to.]"
>
> Frans de Waal is one of the most experienced of primatologist alive and
> even he 'knocks' the AAT!
>
> : )
 
i figured I'd rubbed his nose enough in the facts...

> > Fruth: [laughing...] No, they simply wade through the water
> > on all fours; these little streams are very shallow.
> > ...
> >
> > ;)
> >
> > (Just prior to that in the interview Hohmann relates observing bonobos
> > "running after" duikers...)
> >
> > > [...]

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