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Posted By: Buffalo Shrdlu type, type. forsooth! - 05/10/03 10:55 PM
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,58790,00.html



Posted By: Jackie Re: type, type. forsooth! - 05/11/03 02:04 AM
"Sulawesi crested macaques"--well, that was their problem, right there. Only spider monkeys know how to deal with the web.

Posted By: Father Steve Wrong Monkeys - 05/11/03 03:37 AM
Had they used Gibbons, one of them might have written the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.


Posted By: tsuwm Re: Wrong Monkeys - 05/11/03 04:03 AM
had they used orangs, one of them might have found a rhyme for silver. <g>

Posted By: Jackie Re: Wrong Monkeys - 05/11/03 04:14 AM
And we're not even in Indonesia.
http://wordsmith.org/board/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=words&Number=8708

Posted By: Buffalo Shrdlu Re: Wrong Monkeys - 05/11/03 09:37 AM
well, bless my curple!

where has Shona gone...?

Posted By: Faldage Re: type, type. forsooth! - 05/11/03 10:48 AM
Only spider monkeys know how to deal with the web.

I dunno, this and the following paragraph seem to indicate that they have the right idea:

At first, said Phillips, "the lead male got a stone and started bashing the hell out of it.

Posted By: Capfka Re: type, type. forsooth! - 05/11/03 12:57 PM
At first, said Phillips, "the lead male got a stone and started bashing the hell out of it.

Thus demonstrating that tool use isn't confined to computers, even in these tekanalodgicaly advanced days.

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