Chimps Master First Step in Controlling Fire

livescience ^ | 21 December 2009 | Charles Q. Choi

[brityank]

Yep, it's real. And they are elk, not deer.

I don't use it much, but Snopes.com has a good writeup on the derivation from McColgan. He also makes note that several other groups of forest animals seem to act to preserve themselves, and not run off wildly as so many presume.

I do not buy into the idea of the chimps using fire in the manner we think of, as they haven't created any tools to control it or create it.

[marsh2]

In our 2008 fires, the environmentalists said that there was no cause for concern that animals had been harmed by the fire, they simply got out of the way. According to fire fighters on the ground, that is bs. There are a lot of animal casualties.