Five piece toolkit made by wild chimps
Chimps built a 5-piece toolkit to help them extract honey from underground bee colonies.
The tools consist of pounders, enlargers, collectors, perforators and swabbers. Chimps, suspended in acrobatic positions on branches, might first pull out a thick stick pounder to break open beehive entrances. They then reach for another stick, the enlarger, to perforate and widen different honeybee hive compartments. Next comes the collector, used to dip or scoop out honey.The honey extraction toolkit has been licensed by Home Depot and will be available later this fall, says one of the chimps.Different tools and methods are needed to obtain underground bee honey. The chimps wield a perforator to penetrate the ground, locate a honey chamber and dig into the soil. They then pull off strips of bark to "dip and spoon the honey out of the opened beehive."
Obtaining honey from an underground hive isn't easy. Aside from dealing with angry, stinging bees, the chimps must dig narrow sideways tunnels, maintain perfect aim and prevent soil from falling into, and ruining, their desired sweet reward.
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Zoologists believe that recently observed cases of violence among chimpanzees may have occurred as a result of one of the chimps borrowing the other chimp's toolkit and not bringing it back when he said he would.
Simian Army Knife.
It's not my planet, monkey-boy.
It will also come with a genuine leather Home Depot tool belt.
"the chimps must dig narrow sideways tunnels, maintain perfect aim and prevent soil from falling into, and ruining, their desired sweet reward."
im pretty sure the chimps don't give two shits about dirt in their honey...
For many reasons, I'm still more impressed by tool use by corvids.
Were they metric or imperial tools?
Of course, we won't really know that chimps are intelligent until one of them launches a court case over not getting a share of the royalties.
"Chimps...might first pull out a thick stick pounder"
...pull it out from where, their utility belt?
Another gem from the article:
"...said University of Cambridge researcher Chris Bird, who led the avian project."
Too bad they couldn't also get a quote from the well-known primatologist Steve Monkey.
Those chimps are slipping. They're not supposed to let the humans see them use technology. Granted it was only a couple of sticks this time, but next time some careless bonobo drops his shellphone and we'll have to send in a crack team of yeti ninjas to clean up the mess.
@#8
they were chimperial, obviously.
"It was the best of times,
it was the blurst of times..."
Put them back on typewriters.
Give them internet access and they always end up here, at Boing Boing.
#13, Carpal tunnel syndrome applies to primates as well. Touch-screen pictograms are much easier for writing hollywood screenplays.
(see what I mean?)
So are they blogging yet? How's that central African Wi-Fi build-out coming?
so if chimps have language and use tools, is killing them murder?
Webmonkees,
Perhaps we were hasty in giving those thousand typewriters to a thousand chimps. Your writing is better than most of these guys'- wanna take a shot at 'The Great American Novel'? Oh wait- you did, didn't you? You little monkey you!
thanks, troof. Currently trying to finish the second half of Salmon of Doubt using only a herring.
#17, in order to defend their rights,
they'd have to find a pro-bonobo lawyer.
Forget salmon. If you look at that herring thru the microscope mentioned hereabouts, it'd look monstrous! If it could waddle the streets of a Cajun town at night? Slap people down with their long whiskers (movie magic) Terror! I'd scream like a little girl and run from a ginormous herring!
The SciFi channel would be all up in your business!
See ya Saturday night?
[Note- I wasn't hitting on some guy's wife. By "See you Saturday night?" I meant that her book might be the 'Scariest Night Of The Week' movie that the SciFi Channel runs every Saturday.]
[Not that I have a problems with, uh, human / monkey relationships. What's better than grinding on your organ? A monkey on your organ grinder. It's a shame they had to hide their love under pretenses. I say if a man and a monkey are in love, tain't no buddie's bidnits but dey's own.]
#7 posted by Daemon
Have you read Bernd Heinrich's Ravens In Winter? If not, as a digger of corvids, you should.
Tak@ 17, I think its more like genocide. I heard orangutans could go extinct in our lifetimes. WTF?
Nope. The orangutans become religious leaders.
Keepers of the Faith, of the Scrolls.
Seriously Troof, you're keeeeeelin' me.
Pass dat shit around!
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You should see what those chimps can do with CMO's, CDO's and credit default swaps!
Well, actually, you are seeing that, all over the world, right now...
See, the chimps took the money they made on those Reagan movies, and, well, it's, um, complicated. Even the former Secretary of the Treasury doesn't quite understand it. Apparently, that ability passed from the lemurs to the chimps, but not to us humans. So, they've kinda been running things. It was all good until they started mixing mojito's & energy drinks. That's when the feces hit the fan. Literally. Monkeys, y'know?!
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Um, back to the topic, sorry..
I do find that with my job, when routing cash register wiring, some of the same tools are required..
Just without the tasty honey as a reward.