Posted on 02/10/2019 12:14:58 PM PST by EdnaMode
Zookeepers say a group of chimpanzees used branches weakened by a storm to make a ladder and escape from their enclosure at the Belfast Zoo.
Video filmed Saturday by visitors to the Northern Ireland zoo showed several primates scaling a wall and perching atop it, with one walking down a path outside the enclosure.
Zookeeper Alyn Cairns said trees in the chimps’ enclosure had been weakened by recent storms, allowing the animals to break them and fashion a ladder to escape.
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Did they make a ladder of did the limb just fall that way?
Not much of a ladder. Looks like a bunch of chimps made it.
It doesn’t look like they did anything but climb a branch that fell against the wall of the enclosure.
Chimps are extremely dangerous once they reach puberty.
Yeah, but they don’t have to worry about OSHA.
If they open a machine shop give me a call.
If built by the government, that ladder would cost $2M. The cost is significantly less if the ladder is built by undocumented Chimps.
This is Chimp flight. They’re trying to flee the liberal cities.
No what’s impressive is the 3 year old in the background shouting, “Mom, he’s escaping! Shouldn’t we tell somebody?”
I didn’t know that about Chimps. It sounds similar to warnings about Pit Bulls. Hormonal changes take over.
But what about all those Chimps that were seen in old Clint Eastwood movies? I guess they must have been younger than puberty age.
Necessity leads the chimps to think hard to find a solution, and they do. If they have an easy life without challenges, they will become dumb. Give them a serious crisis and they figure out what to do.
Challenges lead to thinking which leads to increased intelligence.
> It doesn’t look like they did anything but climb a branch that fell against the wall of the enclosure.
But that wouldn’t get as many clicks.
Love the child’s British accent:) They are escaping!
It’s possible that they were surgically altered (neutered).
Male chimpanzees, like other male mammals, exhibit patterns of behavior toward females that disarm females’ resistance to mating. These behaviors may include physical force and would be described in human terms as sexual assault or rape, or they may be more indirect, as when males engage in activities that partition females from other males. An example of direct sexual coercion is a male physically keeping an ovulating female to himself, which limits sperm competition. An example of indirect form of sexual coercion is a male killing infant babies that he believes are not his own. This may be an effort to spur the mother into becoming fertile again so that he can mate with her. Female chimpanzees also kill the babies of other chimp mothers.
https://sciencing.com/chimpanzee-mating-habits-6703991.html
Probably not.
Chimps can climb just a wonky pole. They don’t need rungs. What gives?
I remember watching that movie. The leaders name is Caesar.
Climbing a branch that broke off is fine, but I am more amazed by the crows in a story about a month ago. This crow was trying to pick grubs out from under some bark. The crow flew away and returned a few minutes later with a 6 or 7 inch length of wire. He then held the wire down with his foot and used his beak to fashion a hook, that he then used to pull the grubs out with. Think about it. The crow fashioned a sophisticated tool, a hook.
And humans...
Hey! Hey! We’re the Monkees!
You never know where we’ll be found!
So you’d better get ready!
We might be coming to your town!
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