Posted on 04/16/2015 7:46:05 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Iowa State University researchers reported in 2007 that chimpanzees near Fongoli in Senegal were using tools, including spears, to hunt. The team also noted in that initial study that females of the species were the ones crafting most of the weapons. However, the small sample size of that initial study led some scientists to question the conclusions of the research. Over the last eight years, investigators have documented more than 300 hunts utilizing spears and other instruments for hunting.
Males make up 60 percent of the chimpanzees in the study group, yet they undertook just 40 percent of the hunting expeditions. They also generally used their hands to capture and kill prey, while females were found to use tools quite often on the hunt.
"It's just another example of diversity in chimp behavior that we keep finding the longer we study wild chimps. It is more the exception than the rule that you'll find some sort of different behavior, even though we've studied chimps extensively," Jill Pruetz, an anthropology professor at Iowa State University, said.
Galagos, small nocturnal primates popularly known as bush babies, are a favorite food of the chimpanzees in the region. Often, female chimpanzees were observed poking at galagos hiding in trees. As the prey animals ran out from their cover, they were captured by male chimpanzees using their bare hands.
One question that puzzles scientists is why the chimps at Fongoli regularly use spears, while primates in other areas of the world do not. The answer may lie in the group's social structure, which allows these chimps to keep and eat anything they catch. In other regions, the alpha male is awarded all such catches. Galagos are also easy targets for female chimps using spears, compared with the red colobus monkeys hunted by other chimpanzees.
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The answer may lie in the group’s social structure, which allows these chimps to keep and eat anything they catch. In other regions, the alpha male is awarded all such catches.
Developing a sense of private property?
They’ll be starting economies before too long!
Necessity is the monkey of invention.
So are they going to apply this female chimp behavior to humans somehow????
“Female Chimpanzees Use Tools, Including Spears, More Often Than Males”
Spears gave way to credit cards..
Shows that female chimps are inferior to male chimps. Males can use their physical strength...females must rely on tools - most likely invented by the male chimps. Just like humans.
So Brittany Spears uses tools? In more than one meaning...
Yeah, but could they drive?
See post #5
Can't wait to hear what your wife has to say about your comment.
I'm thinking Cowboy Bob might be moving to the bunk house.;-)
And sandwich-making tools, too.
Rather us men want to admit it or not women abetter than us at using tools and multitasking. I see it every morning on the commute to work, there is always at least one women driving while talking on the phone or texting (A couple I swear are doing both), shopping on line, putting on make-up, drinking coffee, smoking a e-cig, while doing their nails. I can’t think of any man that could do all that at the same time!
They say that if you have enough monkeys banging at enough keyboards, they will eventually produce the entire works of Shakespeare. As to Obama’s “Dreams of my Father”: 3 monkeys, 20 minutes.
OK... got a chuckle.
(Narrator on TV): “As the male chimpanzee lounges in his nest sipping an Old Milwaukee, the female busily goes about gathering food for the next meal, utilizing the usual sticks and rocks found at any local jungle hardware store”...
Bush babies seems an odd name for a favorite snack food, how is it advertised, “The only snack food that screams on it’s way down”?
Interesting, I wonder what the Transgendered chimps used?
Yeah, but is anything I wrote not true???
Nope.
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