A chimpanzee stubs out a lit cigarette that was thrown to it by a tourist at Beijing Wildlife Park in China. Picture: Quirky China News / Rex Features
WTF. That tourist deserves to be beaten.
May 02, 2012
April 26, 2012
March 15, 2012
Chimpanzee Teaser Trailer (by DisneyMovieTrailers)
What’s up with the comment that says “I really dislike monkeys (all types including chimps)”? Chimps are not monkeys and what the hell did you watch this trailer for, jackass?
January 24, 2012
Thinking Chimpanzee by floridapfe on Flickr.
This should be forwarded to people who don’t believe in evolution. Just because.
(via fyeahgreatapes)
August 25, 2011
“They observed [Washoe] teaching her companion chimpanzees to sign, and using signs in novel ways, including asking questions about the future—for example, after a snowfall, asking about the “candy tree,” their term for the Christmas tree they get each year.”
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The Troubled Life of Nim Chimpsky by Peter Singer | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books
Holy crap.
August 25, 2011
“For Terrace, like some other researchers at the time, the fundamental question was whether a chimpanzee could create a sentence. Nim used signs in combinations, like “Give Nim banana.” If a human child said that, we would all think she had uttered a sentence. As for the idea that Nim’s signing was mere imitation, or a response to a stimulus that elicited the sign, there was ample evidence of Nim initiating conversations. How could that be mere imitation?”
— The Troubled Life of Nim Chimpsky by Peter Singer | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books
August 17, 2011
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July 27, 2011
Using tools to eat insects. :)
(via fyeahgreatapes)
July 08, 2011
“…The chimps also have well-honed stone-throwing skills, though these are far from unique to the Bossou apes. A human-like ability to plan ahead has also been seen at a Swedish zoo, where one chimpanzee organised his day around hoarding stones and making discs from concrete so he could hurl them at visitors.
Read More at NewScientist
This sort of ‘past time’ has also been observed in a female Gorilla (not sure of the sub-species) at the UK’s Twycross Zoo (The World Primate Centre.) …this female Gorilla gathers twigs and sticks, strips the leaves off them, fold them over to create a mini ‘missile’, and throws them at pre-determined zoo visitors, in what is obviously a game. — Primate Win x”
Planet of the Apes is so happening one day.
