Chimps knocked off top of the IQ tree

The Times ^ | 4/15/2007 | Jonathan Leake and Roger Dobson

[spinestein]

[The study comes at a time when orang-utans are endangered as never before.]

WOW! What a COINCIDENCE!

I wonder if we’ll start seeing stories about how cute and cuddly they are and how they live in peaceful social groups and how their feces hold the secret to a cure for cancer and Alzheimer’s.

I assume the sarc tag isn’t necessary.

[dighton]

Smart perhaps, though by some accounts not very nice.

[Zeon Cowboy]

They really spell it with a hyphen in the middle?! I thought that was just a Monty Python joke. Crazy Brits.

[Political Junkie Too]

-PJ

[verum ago]

So is it okay to spell Orange-utan without the hyphen? Sometimes I see it that way and sometimes I don’t.

I've never seen it spelled with an e or a hyphen.

[Lost Dutchman]

The Librarian of Unseen University could have told you that.

Of course, it would have come out as “Ook!”.

[Candor7]

Years ago Clint Eastwood knew that Orangs were at the top of the IQ scale, perhaps higher than humans. I mean Clyde helped Clint memorize his lines! ( Film: Every Which Way But Loose, 1978)

[HHFi]

My African gray parrot says they’re all just a bunch of damn dirty apes to him.

[verum ago]

many of our fellow primates, not just orangutans, aren’t so nice and cuddly as people like to think. People generally like to think of primates as being docile and vegetarians. Many are not so docile around humans and some, especially chimps, are effective predators. Chimps also regularly kill people in Uganda and Kenya and some individuals are known man eaters.

[Ukiapah Heep]

But will they program for less money than the H1-B's?

[dighton]

Right. You may recall one recent news item, about a birthday party for a chimp that went horribly wrong.

[PizzaDriver]

Lots of folks are brighter than MY closest Relatives!
‘nuf said.

[lawdude]

Right turn, Clyde!

[macamadamia]

LOL!!! Dr. Zaius.

[Sam Cree]

Where do dolphins fit on the list, I wonder.

[lawdude]

Didn’t read this far. You beat me to it.

[Smokin' Joe]

He also found that in some food-rich areas the creatures had developed a complex culture in which adults would teach youngsters how to make tools and find food.

The less time spent foraging, the more time for other pursuits.

I noticed bonobos were not in the top 10, but their females seem to have the whole provender thing figured out... (ducks...)

[Zeroisanumber]

Why would it surprise anyone that the animal more closely related to man is the dumber one?

[bruinbirdman]

"It’s about time we had outcome based primate rankings (all number 1). These rankings have to be hurting their self-esteem. "

Austrian Court to Decide if Chimpanzee is Deserving of “Human Status”

yitbos

[kallisti]

Ask John Lilly.