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Futher evidence of tool use in primates

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  • mindrobotsmindrobots Posts: 6,506
    edited 2015-04-14 11:48
    Me + weekend + yardwork

    Do you mean tool use in non-human primates?
  • LoopyBytelooseLoopyByteloose Posts: 12,537
    edited 2015-04-14 11:57
    Oh my, do you actually mean that humans can be primates too?

    That must be where all the monkey see - monkey do has resulted in every third person wandering around with a tattoo these days.
  • kwinnkwinn Posts: 8,697
    edited 2015-04-14 13:34
    Loopy Byteloose wrote: »
    Oh my, do you actually mean that humans can be primates too?

    That must be where all the monkey see - monkey do has resulted in every third person wandering around with a tattoo these days.

    Or the ones holding up their pants because they can't figure out the belt goes above the hips.
  • MicksterMickster Posts: 2,693
    edited 2015-04-14 13:55
    DOH!!! I thought this was another C thread.
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,256
    edited 2015-04-14 17:16
    Mickster wrote: »
    DOH!!! I thought this was another C thread.

    Good one... maybe "further evidence of tool chain use" in primates... :)
  • PublisonPublison Posts: 12,366
    edited 2015-04-14 17:24
    I though it was Deja Vu: :)

    http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php/160787-Multirotor-Monkey-Business?highlight=Monkey
  • davidsaundersdavidsaunders Posts: 1,559
    edited 2015-04-14 19:27
    I think that an apposing thumb creature (definition of primate) that uses tools would have been a Software Engenier using the compilers, assemblers, charting apps, linkers, and debugers :) .

    Though that chimp is smarter than most of us.
  • W9GFOW9GFO Posts: 4,010
    edited 2015-04-14 21:28
    davidsaunders wrote: »
    I think that an apposing thumb creature (definition of primate).

    I did not know that definition so naturally I had to Google it for verification, for skeptical reasons. This is what I found;

    definition of primate by Google

    pri·mate1
    ˈprīˌmāt,ˈprīmət/
    nounCHRISTIAN CHURCH
    the chief bishop or archbishop of a province.
    "the primate of Poland"

    Incidentally, primates aren't the only animals with opposable thumbs. Opossums are one example.
  • LoopyBytelooseLoopyByteloose Posts: 12,537
    edited 2015-04-15 08:14
    Aren't opposums related to kangaroos - both marsupials?

    They don't use tools, do they?

    Did you know that male opposums are called Jacks and the females are called Jills?
  • kwinnkwinn Posts: 8,697
    edited 2015-04-15 09:40
    Fascinating, the things one can learn on the propeller forums.
  • prof_brainoprof_braino Posts: 4,313
    edited 2015-04-20 19:42
    Loopy Byteloose wrote: »
    ... opposums... They don't use tools, do they?

    Of course they do, the pails of water they fetch from up the hill.
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