We need to re-write the rulebook, chilluns!
Another article, with photos.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/04/28/eaorang128.xml
Maybe they’ll kill themselves with the spear
Careful - he’ll put his eye out!
I recall seeing a documentary where a certain type of bird would use long thorns to spear grubs in rotting tree trunks.
The bird would eyeball the hole and go to find a thorn the exact length required to stab the tasty little buggers.
Wild kingdom, indeed!
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Careful - he’ll put his eye out!
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I’ll put out the eye of the first 'Doper to post anythingabout “welcoming simian overlords”.
I, for one, welcome our new Great Ape overlords.
So, weird question, but doesn’t this help add a lot of credence to the idea that some inventions arose, spontaneously and simultaneously (or nearly so), on opposite ends of the world with no communication between the cultures that invented them? I mean, in within a year, both chimpanzees and orangutans have invented the spear, and they share nary a trading post!
'Cause that kinda blows my mind on a larger level, even.
Well, do we know that they invented the spear, or simply that it’s the first time both groups have been witnessed using spears?
“Dr. Zeus! Dr. Zeus!!”
We better patent it before they do. If not they’ll come after for royalties. Well, they will after they invent lawyers.
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Well, do we know that they invented the spear, or simply that it’s the first time both groups have been witnessed using spears?
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You think they copied us? Or do you think they’ve been using them for years and we’ve been to blinded by our idea that only humans use tools to notice? I wondered about the later, too.
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“Dr. Zeus! Dr. Zeus!!”
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Who’s Dr. Zeus? The ape equivalent of Dr. Seuss?
Eh, I wouldn’t worry about this too much - unless, of course, the apes have also been seen hanging out around a mysterious black, rectangular monolith. Then we’re boned.
/Hums “Thus Sprach Zarathustra”
//Purchases pie for Great Ape overlords
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You think they copied us?
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Yeah, they’re just aping their betters.
[QUOTE=asterion]
Who’s Dr. Zeus? The ape equivalent of Dr. Seuss?
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Planet of the Apes.
In the movie it isn’t clear whether he’s a writer.
[QUOTE=Really Not All That Bright]
I, for one, welcome our new Great Ape overlords.
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Close enough.
Where’s that gawddam hat pin?
It’s Dr. Zaius, gaddummit, as in this video.
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant]
Close enough.
Where’s that gawddam hat pin?
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You said simian!
Nyah-nyah!
[QUOTE=Really Not All That Bright]
You said simian!
Nyah-nyah!
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I also said “close enough.”
I’m changing from hatpin to heated icepick 
[QUOTE=Eric Halfabee]
I recall seeing a documentary where a certain type of bird would use long thorns to spear grubs in rotting tree trunks.
The bird would eyeball the hole and go to find a thorn the exact length required to stab the tasty little buggers.
Wild kingdom, indeed!
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That’d be the New Caledonian crow. Looks like this statement in that Wikipedia entry will have to be updated now