Study: Chimp Attack Plans Evolving Against Zoo Visitors
Posted by Justin on May 10th, 2012
Santino is sick of your gawking and he’s determined to gain sweet revenge by tagging your forehead with a rock.
Santino is a chimp at Sweden’s Furuvik Zoo. He’d gained a reputation for throwing projectiles at particularly annoying visitors so one researcher decided to track his pattern. He discovered a evolving strategy that showed signs of forethought and improvisation.
Here is one of his plots…
“After a visitor group had left the compound area, Santino went inside the enclosure and brought a good-sized heap of hay that he placed near the visitor’s section, and immediately after that he put stones under it,” Osvath said.
“He also appeared to have placed projectiles behind, just before he went in after the hay. After this, he sat down beside the hay and waited. When the visitors came back, he waited until they were close by and, without any preceding display, he threw stones at the crowd.”
How much longer until he starts getting mail order packages from ACME?
[Fox News]
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