Posted on 04/24/2006 10:44:29 AM PDT by presidio9
Lancelot Link has been called in track down the perpetrators.
Where I used to live in S. Fla. there was a wooded area where quite a few monkeys lived. I heard they were released or escaped from a local circus. Anyway, they had quite a colony in the woods and neighbors fed them and they were somewhat of an attraction. One day a man driving down the highway near the woods hit and killed one of the monkeys. Other monkeys chased the car. Obviously they didn't catch up to the car (lucky for the driver) but it does show they are very social and apparently have a sense of justice.
It's amazing the kind of "backroom" deals ambitious young chimps strike in order to win secrets votes in a power play -- they'll bribe old influential members of a troupe with food, win over females by kissing their babies -- the females in turn pressure males to support their prefered candidate. You go to a human political convention and you see how little we've evolved.
Great book. Read it in an Anthropology class at Michigan. I already knew chimps were intelligent but some of the ways in which their behavior echoes ours were striking.
Muslim chimps? I always suspected as much.
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