# I, for one, welcome our new Spear-Wielding Chimp Over...ladies...

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-for-one-welcome-our-new-spear-wielding-chimp-over-ladies/393395
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [February 23, 2007, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-for-one-welcome-our-new-spear-wielding-chimp-over-ladies/393395 "2007-02-23T16:08:45Z")
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### Author: ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2007, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-for-one-welcome-our-new-spear-wielding-chimp-over-ladies/393395/1 "2007-02-23T16:08:45Z")

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> **[BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Chimpanzees 'hunt using spears'](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6387611.stm)**
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> Chimpanzees have been observed making and using wooden spears to hunt other primates.

What happened in Chimpanzee-land? Did the Black Monolith send forth a signal?

And why bush-babies?

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### Author: ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2007, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-for-one-welcome-our-new-spear-wielding-chimp-over-ladies/393395/2 "2007-02-23T21:45:07Z")

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Um… chimps have been known to use sticks for yummy-insect-gathering for a long time. This isn’t that much of a leap- “put a stick in an ant’s nest, lick off ants, repeat” just led to “poke stick in hole, hope it comes out with a tasty marmoset on it”.

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### Author: ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2007, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-for-one-welcome-our-new-spear-wielding-chimp-over-ladies/393395/3 "2007-02-23T21:55:47Z")

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Any kind of mental leap made by animals is noteworthy, surely?

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### Author: ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2007, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-for-one-welcome-our-new-spear-wielding-chimp-over-ladies/393395/4 "2007-02-23T22:42:39Z")

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Reminds me of a classic Onion [article](http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28315).

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### Author: ![Sunrazor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sunrazor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunrazor)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2007, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-for-one-welcome-our-new-spear-wielding-chimp-over-ladies/393395/5 "2007-02-24T03:11:49Z")

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Wait a minute! Female primates are the problem solvers!?

::kicks back, cracks a Coors, flips on History Channel::  
I dunno , babe, you’re the one who wants a family room. You figger it out.