Scientists find monkeys who know how to fish

APnewsmyway ^ | Jun 10, 7:27 AM (ET) | MICHAEL CASEY

[mysterio]

We can do it, so it makes sense that monkeys can do it to some extent. I think some species of primates (besides ourselves) also use some rudimentary tools for other things.

[fishtank]

This is another in a long line of articles where it appears that a journalist:

(1) woke up

(2) smoked a joint

(3) logged onto the PC in his mom’s basement (i.e. his ‘pad’)

(4) wrote an article on evolution.

[HIDEK6]

Now, researchers say they have discovered groups of the silver-haired monkeys in Indonesia that fish.

The proof was demonstrated when researchers discovered little monkey boats littered with little monkey beer cans.

[null and void]

Are you saying monkeys have flies?

[Fractal Trader]

GGG?

[Cyman]

Several years ago I took my little nephew fishing. As he caught a fair sized crappie I exclaimed “Look at that little monkey fish”

I subsequently got fired from my announcing job for Monday night football pewee league

[Marie2]

I don’t think monkeys need fishing licenses unless they are over 16.

[Hacklehead]

“I saw a nature program several years ago about a heron in England that did learn how to use bait to fish.”

It just goes to show that any bird-brain can fish. Actually, birds are alot smarter than people think.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Are you saying monkeys have flies?

What?....they can fly fish also?....this is crazy!

[SunkenCiv]

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[blam]

Gathering...not fishing. (IMO)

[Renderofveils]

Some birds are capable of using tools for specific purposes. The Behavioural Ecology Research Group at Oxford provided a great example of this with the crow fashioning a wire hook to pull a basket of food from a container.

(video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rd3vUeULZIk&NR=1

[mysterio]

That is flat out amazing.

[Sig Sauer P220]

Lets see em cast with an open face reel.

[Renderofveils]

The really amazing part is that crows do this in the wild by fashioning similar ‘hooks’ from twigs. Twigs that they select, break off, strip off the foliage, and then finally trim up any long pieces that may get in the way. The fact that there’s adaptability to the concept shows some degree of intelligence.

[mysterio]

Makes sense. They have to bend twigs all of the time to make a nest. Apparently, some of them figured out that they could use those bent twigs for other uses.

[SunkenCiv]

:’)

A man pulls into town with a truckload of fish. Game warden sees him and ask how he caught them? Come on I’ll show you. The warden gets in the truck and drives thirty minutes to a lake. They clamber into a boat and proceed to the middle of the lake. The man opens box pulls out a stick of dynamite and lights it. The warden says “Hey that’s illegal I’m going to have to arrest you.” The man hands the warden the sizzling dynamite and says, “did you come to fish or to talk?”

[blam]

Sometimes I question whether you’re in Michigan...that joke sounds pretty ‘Redneck’ to me.

[BigBlueJon]

If you give a monkey a fish, you feed him for a day........If you teach a monkey to fish, you feed him for a lifetime.

[Grizzled Bear]

The way Bears catch Salmon in the river has more in common with “fishing” then the actions of these Monkeys.

Give me a yell when the Monkeys are sitting in a boat drinking beer.