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Chimps use branches to build ladder in daring zoo escape
NY Post ^
| February 10, 2019
| Associated Press
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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To: trisham
#14 so their democrats....
To: EdnaMode
The chimps built nothing. They merely used what was available as a tool to get them higher to scale the wall. Many animals and even insects used limbs, twigs, and an assortment of other objects as tools.
Only humans actually build tools.
To: Crucial
Free at last, Free at last, thank God Almighty, we are Free at last.
To: lee martell
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02/10/2019 6:03:53 PM PST
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printhead
(I need a new tagline. Happy days are here again.)
To: EdnaMode
When they learn how to use fire arms then we’re really screwed.
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02/10/2019 6:04:00 PM PST
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jmacusa
("The more numerous the laws the more corrupt the government''.)
To: blueunicorn6
“We're just trying to be friendly/so come and watch us sing and play...''
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02/10/2019 6:05:45 PM PST
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jmacusa
("The more numerous the laws the more corrupt the government''.)
To: trisham
An adult male chimp could literally pull a 10 year old human child to pieces.
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02/10/2019 6:07:48 PM PST
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jmacusa
("The more numerous the laws the more corrupt the government''.)
To: EdnaMode
Lol, just goes to show that bad habits are the easiest to learn. These guys are a lot smarter than we give them credit for. They could probably replace most millennials in the workplace and do a better job. :)
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