Re: Gorrillas use tools, too


Thanks Mario.

Here's a link to the original article in Plos...

http://biology.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pbio.0030380#s2

A number of points...

1) What do we define as a tool? To my mind nests are far more
sophisticated forms of the same phenomenon and yet no-one seems to get
excited by the sort of things created by some social insects. The fact
that gorillas are able to use sticks to guage the depth of water and
for extra support whilst wading should not be surprising.

2) The more significant observation here was the bipedality being
exhibited and the behavioural context in which it took place.

Algis Kuliukas

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