Re: Gorrillas use tools, too
- From: zzbunker@xxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: 20 Oct 2005 03:33:01 -0700
Rich Travsky wrote:
> Algis Kuliukas wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
> Tool use? The first crutches?
The last crutches. Just like Mel Gibson and The Last Temptation.
Since bipedality and tools are the reason modern engineers
don't give modern scientists any modern tools.
Since they are all just like their gorilla kin-folk;
they all belong in the jungles with the chimps and the knuckle
draggers.
> 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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