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Study: Most Wild Chimps Are Southpaws
Associated Press ^
| 8/15/05
| RANDOLPH E. SCHMID
Posted on 08/15/2005 3:56:50 PM PDT by anymouse
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Just when us left-handers were getting over being called "lefties," now we find out that chimps are mostly left-handed also.
Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle. :)
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posted on
08/15/2005 3:56:53 PM PDT
by
anymouse
To: anymouse
That's the same hand those in the Middle East use for toilet paper, right?
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posted on
08/15/2005 3:58:12 PM PDT
by
A CA Guy
(God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
To: anymouse
Phew, glad you posted that, It sure setteled the debate rageing in our office....
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posted on
08/15/2005 3:58:23 PM PDT
by
konaice
To: anymouse
Three years and 17 chimps; my guess is the money ran out before the chimps finished off the termites.
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posted on
08/15/2005 3:59:41 PM PDT
by
Old Professer
(As darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of good; innocence is blind.)
To: anymouse
Dang...that explains my sudden cravings for bananas and an aversion to Charlton Heston. ;-)
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posted on
08/15/2005 4:00:29 PM PDT
by
peyton randolph
(Warning! It is illegal to fatwah a camel in all 50 states)
To: anymouse
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posted on
08/15/2005 4:01:15 PM PDT
by
balrog666
(A myth by any other name is still inane.)
To: anymouse
I figured that handedness and heartedness were related to fighting. If one leads with the more capable right side when fighting, then the heart and the side of the brain that controls that capable side are further from harm.
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posted on
08/15/2005 4:02:04 PM PDT
by
lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
To: anymouse
So, "Most chimps are lefties". Makes sense as it's also true in reverse.
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posted on
08/15/2005 4:02:58 PM PDT
by
Caipirabob
(Democrats.. Socialists..Commies..Traitors...Who can tell the difference?)
To: anymouse
I don't know how I made it this far in life without knowing this.
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posted on
08/15/2005 4:10:22 PM PDT
by
mercy
(never again a patsy for Bill Gates - spyware and viri free for over a year now)
To: Old Professer
LOL! Exactly what I was thinking! It took them three years to notice what hand 17 chimps were eating with? Way to go, guys!
(And how does a study of 17 individuals in a presumably related group generalize to the population as a whole?)
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posted on
08/15/2005 4:10:22 PM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(Officially around the bend.)
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To: anymouse
I throw left and bat right. I know useless; however, I've got a solution...
... it is now time to make 1st the "new" 3rd and 3rd the "new" 1st... now that's better.
Trajan88, #23 Plano (Texas) Yankees.
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posted on
08/15/2005 4:11:11 PM PDT
by
Trajan88
(www.bullittclub.com)
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To: Opposable Thumbs
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posted on
08/15/2005 4:14:18 PM PDT
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(Lonesome's First Law: Whenever anyone says it's not about the money, it's about the money.)
To: Opposable Thumbs
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posted on
08/15/2005 4:14:35 PM PDT
by
Psycho_Bunny
(Every evil which liberals imagine Judaism and Christianity to be, islam is.)
To: Opposable Thumbs
You just join up today to post that? Don't you have something better to do than hunt for unflattering photos of GWB?
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posted on
08/15/2005 4:14:51 PM PDT
by
jacquej
To: Opposable Thumbs
You just join up today to post that? Don't you have something better to do than hunt for unflattering photos of GWB?
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posted on
08/15/2005 4:15:13 PM PDT
by
jacquej
To: Caipirabob
This lefty resembles your remark!!
Now, someone please pass me a banana.
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posted on
08/15/2005 4:18:00 PM PDT
by
Churchillspirit
(Anaheim Angels - 2002 World Series Champions)
To: peyton randolph
To: anymouse
My guess is its because they where born south of the equator.
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posted on
08/15/2005 4:26:05 PM PDT
by
Marine_Uncle
(Honor must be earned)
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