Re: Gorrillas use tools, too

Algis Kuliukas wrote:
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> 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...
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> 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.

Tool use? The first crutches?

An animal already predisposed to bipedal behavior exhibiting it again?

http://www.matmice.com/home/gorillas/picture_of_a_gorilla.jpg

http://www.mountaingorillas.org/gallery/photos/Gorillas_8_031.htm
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