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Scientists find monkeys who know how to fish
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| Jun 10, 7:27 AM (ET)
| MICHAEL CASEY
Posted on 06/10/2008 7:14:30 AM PDT by null and void
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To: null and void
Gee, bears have been doing it for a few years now. Same with eagles, herons, foxes, otters, martins, etc etc etc...
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posted on
06/10/2008 7:33:26 AM PDT
by
pissant
(THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
To: pissant; girlangler
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posted on
06/10/2008 7:34:56 AM PDT
by
null and void
(Bureaucracies are stupid. They grow larger by the square of the population and stupider by its cube.)
To: null and void
Big deal. Cats have always done this. They have their own hooks too.
And it’s always puzzled me that cats typically dislike water, yet they love fish and excel at catching them. How did they even develop a taste for fish in the first place?
Now, your ape that uses a stick to “fish” for ants or termites...that’s more like fishing!
To: NordP
“Gathering...is not fishing.”
Precisely. Bears catch and eat fish. Lots of birds do it.
To: null and void
To: null and void
I bet there are some fish (and crocodilians) that would hunt for a tasty monkey who was trying to catch a fish.
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posted on
06/10/2008 7:42:58 AM PDT
by
pissant
(THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
To: Hacklehead
“Unless they are using bait, it’s not fishing.”
I saw a nature program several years ago about a heron in England that did learn how to use bait to fish.
It was in a park where kids would feed bread to the ducks.
I guess the heron noticed that bluegills would gather to also grab some bread scraps.
The heron learned to fly in and grab a piece of bread and fly to the other end of the pond. It would then put pieces of bread in the water and grab the fish when they came up for it.
It wasn't baiting a hook or using a rod but it was using bait to get fish.
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posted on
06/10/2008 7:43:12 AM PDT
by
Beagle8U
(FreeRepublic -- One stop shopping ....... Its the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
To: null and void; Grammy
LOL.
Well, we talk about it a lot anyway.
Hopefully Grammy and I will get to test that theory at some point soon.
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posted on
06/10/2008 7:43:35 AM PDT
by
girlangler
(Fish Fear Me)
To: Daveinyork
How do you say "Can I git me a huntin' fishin' license he-uh?" in monkey?
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posted on
06/10/2008 7:44:14 AM PDT
by
null and void
(Bureaucracies are stupid. They grow larger by the square of their size and stupider by its cube.)
To: freelancer
Our American welfare recipients sit on street corners and drink beer all day, and they have intentionally not been “taught how to fish”.
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posted on
06/10/2008 7:44:47 AM PDT
by
MrB
(You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
To: Piquaboy
Don’t know, but he sure can’t bowl...
To: null and void
Give a monkey a fish...he’ll eat for a day. Teach a monkey to fish... and he’ll still throw his feces at you. But he might get his own show on ESPN.
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posted on
06/10/2008 7:45:14 AM PDT
by
andy58-in-nh
(Peace Is Not The Question.)
To: Daveinyork; Jack Black; All
Yep, perhaps we're witnessing a "hidden agenda" here???
Are the "Darwinists" nudging us again???
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posted on
06/10/2008 7:45:14 AM PDT
by
NordP
((Rev Wright ) - Hey, Obama... Looks like YOUR "turrr-key" has come hoooome to ROOOOST!)
To: MrB
Not true. They get the beer money by using votes as bait...
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posted on
06/10/2008 7:46:55 AM PDT
by
null and void
(Bureaucracies are stupid. They grow larger by the square of their size and stupider by its cube.)
To: andy58-in-nh
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posted on
06/10/2008 7:47:34 AM PDT
by
null and void
(Bureaucracies are stupid. They grow larger by the square of their size and stupider by its cube.)
To: andy58-in-nh
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posted on
06/10/2008 7:47:51 AM PDT
by
NordP
((Rev Wright ) - Hey, Obama... Looks like YOUR "turrr-key" has come hoooome to ROOOOST!)
To: Daveinyork
“Do they have a license?”.....
It wouldn’t matter, the monkeys would just throw poop at the game warden....
To: freelancer
Give a macaque a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a macaque to fish and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day. No, teach a macaque to fish and he will spend huge amounts of money on sparkly-painted boats, equipment, sonar, trailer, SUV, gas for aforementioned SUV, long fishing trips, special clothes, taxidermy, DVDs, you name it. The beer is the least of it. ;-)
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posted on
06/10/2008 8:00:05 AM PDT
by
ottbmare
To: null and void
“A monkey could do that.”—Hung from Top Chef
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posted on
06/10/2008 8:05:02 AM PDT
by
denydenydeny
(Expel the priest and you don't inaugurate the age of reason, you get the witch doctor--Paul Johnson)
To: null and void
They must have watched the bears fish, they have for centuries.
Maybe they are different because they fly fish?
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posted on
06/10/2008 8:05:53 AM PDT
by
BillT
(God said it, that settles it whether I believe it or not! (Bible rules))
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