Aping Behavior

It is said, according to laws governing probability, that if you had an infinite number of monkeys typing and infinite amount of hours they would eventually type all the great books ever written. Of course, they would type a huge amount of gibberish before they randomly hit the keys to produce the novels, but both things would happen.
But what about moneys doing creative tasks? It has always been believed that monkeys are a higher order intellectually than all other animals, that they are our predecessors but that they do not possess the ability to think as humans (excluding Paris Hilton here...) do. But wait! According to recent media reports, U.S. researchers say that chimpanzees have been seen using spears to hunt bush babies. A study has just been released about this that allegedly demonstrates a whole new level of tool use and planning apes. Perhaps even more intriguing, it was only the females who fashioned and used the wooden spears. Oh well.... it's not so amazing to me. I admit women are much smarter than men (again, if we exclude Paris and Britney Spears from the comparison).
One researcher said while watching the Fongoli community of savanna-dwelling apes in southeastern Senegal, she saw an adolescent female chimp use a spear to stab a bush baby as it slept in a tree hollow, then pull it out and eat it. The chimps apparently had to invent new ways to gather food because they live in an unusual area for their species, the researchers reported about all of this in the journal Current Biology.
"This is just an innovative way of having to make up for a pretty harsh environment," said the report. "The chimps must come down from trees to gather food and rest in dry caves during the hot season. It is similar to what we say about early hominids that lived maybe 6 million years ago and were basically the precursors to humans."
Hmmmmmmm Does this mean apes could again evolve into...welll ...into a slightly higher form of life like Paris and Britney? I wonder. Chimpanzees are genetically the closest living relatives to human beings, sharing more than 98 percent of our DNA. Scientists believe the precursors to chimps and humans split off from a common ancestor about 7 million years ago. So...maybe this not only reinforces the truth of evolution but lets humans know that apes may be more capable of intellectual growth if stimulated to learn.
Chimps are known to use tools to crack open nuts and fish for termites. Some birds use tools, as do other animals such as gorillas, orangutans and even naked mole rats. But the sophisticated use of a tool by those Senegal chimpanzees to hunt with had never been seen before And this behavior was noted every day for almost three weeks, meaning it was not a fluke.
Male chimps never used the spears. The researchers believe the males use their greater strength and size to grab food and kill prey more easily, so the females must come up with other methods. But I suspect females of all species are juts smarter. The spear-hunting occurred when the group was foraging together, which is unchimplike (but human) behavior.
"The observation that individuals hunting with tools include females and immature chimpanzees suggests that we should rethink traditional explanations for the evolution of such behavior in our own lineage," the research paper stated "The multiple steps taken by Fongoli chimpanzees in making tools to dispatch mammalian prey involve the kind of foresight and intellectual complexity that most likely typified early human relatives.
So what do you think about all of this? How capable of creative thinking, if at all, are animals?
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