Observations and inanities by a second-shift assistant supervisor in the Puppy-Grinding division of the Evil Atheist Conspiracy® (our motto: "Sure it's cruel, but think of the jobs!"), your host, Brent Rasmussen.
Die Bushbaby
During my lunchtime Science reading today I came across this article about Chimps fashioning spears and vigorously poking them into trees to kill bushbabies while they sleep (since they are nocturnal). I'm really out of the macro-biology scene...I didn't even realize that chimps ate meat. In another interesting twist, it appears that the females are the ones doing the hunting. Now, the sample size for this study is pretty small (only 10 spear hunts out of 22 viewing periods in one study in Senegal) but I still think this is pretty interesting. The New Scientist article that I linked to even has video.
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While in college I saw a video of chimps hunting smaller diurnal monkeys.
To summarize: A bunch of male chimps get together to chase the smaller primates through the trees. While the main group is chasing the monkey a few individuals wait at points that will make good escape routs to ambush the monkey. When the monkey is caught it's literally torn appart by the chimps. Apparently the male chimps will then feed pieces of monkey to females they're trying to woo.
It's interesting to note that while the male oriented hunting activity involves chasing monkeys through the trees the female oriented hunting activity involves fashioning tools and going for the easy prey.
Words that sound racist but aren't
Is it just me, or does the word "bushbabies" in any other context sound horribly racist?
It just makes me want to use the word niggardly.
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"Ponies are atheists, you know, technically."
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Not racist
Not racist...anti-Bush!
Chimps hate GW too!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah...
Because they're tired of being insulted by being compared to him!
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