"Chimps hunting Bushbabies with spears..." Topic

Interesting (and a bit humorous) discussions here:

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Chimps have been spotted for years poking sticks into trees to get termites. (Mmmmmmm! Termites!)
It's not that much of a stretch to go on to bush babies.

Copying Evil Humans is not necessary.

By the way, I love it reading how anthropologists are now speculating from this that it was WOMEN who invented weapons, since it is only Girlie chimps who have been seen doing this.
Hah! Take that, you "weapons are a substitute penis" feminists!

And, let me be the first to link my logo with "Mmmmm, bushbabies!"

Eventually, they will boss the males in their group to go out and do the hunting, so they can stay home and act all weak and delicate.

What an elaborate con!

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PS. By that time, they will have substituted their sharp sticks with even sharper tongues. Speech (and excessive nagging) must have also been a female invention. :)

This is what they were already doing before they started using spears . . . a bit disturbing to watch:

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Video about their use of spears:

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PS. A picture is worth a thousand words, but a video is worth a thousand pictures!

geez, first Simon Cowell picks on them, now chimps with spears;

when will the inhumanity against bushbabies end?

just when all the years of raising themselves up gets to the pinnacle, bushbaby culture takes two significant hits that htreaten to knock them back down the food chain of the animal kingdom.

what next? Brittany Spears photographed without her bush…baby?

say it ain't so Joe!

Maybe they are just an isolated tribe of Amazon spear-wielding chimps!

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Why is this under "Prehistoric?" The chimps are doing it now.

Well thinking about it, as the the chimps haven't got around to writing their history yet, so I suppose this is the prehistoric era for them.

Because in the future, Dr. Zaius will regard this era as prehistoric.

Who's inferring form this that women invented weapons?

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"weapons were the preserve of males, they being the ones hunted the mammoths"

And how do you think men were persuaded to do anything as dumb as hunt big ruddy mamoths?

"Why is this under prehistoric?"

Because of headlines like these on that topic (now):
"Hunting chimps may change view of human evolution"
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They always try to make that connection (1995):
"Chimpanzee Hunting Behavior and Human Evolution"
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"And how do you think men were persuaded to do anything as dumb as hunt big ruddy mamoths?"

Maybe they chose near-suicide over staying in the cave with all the talking females and the hungry crying babies.

That, and the hyoid bone found at a dig, is clear evidence that Neanderthals could do a lot of talking.
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All you need to know is right here:

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and thats all I got to say about that.

I wonder how the Chimp Clan responds when one of them accidently hits another in the face?

Ok. I know these Lance and Laser ones are not Chimps, but they are definitely armed and dangerous!

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They were sculped by Bob Murch (of Pulp Figures fame).

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What does raw bushbaby taste like? Should it be sauteed with a little garlic and rosemary?

I know these Lance and Laser ones are not Chimps

No, but these from Raven's Forge ARE chimps:

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Unfortunately, I don;t make bushbabies . . .

'"They always try to make that connection (1995):
"Chimpanzee Hunting Behavior and Human Evolution"'

You only have to watch one special on chimpanzees and sign up for one online discussion forum to see the parallels in social behavior. (And I wouldn't describe it as evolution.)

Man, the reporters are really eating this up!!!

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