Killing Bush Babies??

One of my most sought-after question is what makes us (Homo sapiens) human? We often associate humans with a species who knows how to make tools, how to commit murder (or genocide), and get high on some psychedelic mushrooms/drugs.  Yet, recently a report from Senegal (March issue of Current Biology) showed a picture of a chimpanzee (7 millions away from humans) making a spear and jabbed out a bush baby from a tree trunk!!  Prior to this discovery, making lethal weapons for hunting was exclusively humanly feature!!

Some of you may wonder what is a bush baby?? because I did well… here it is.
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LOL

Chimpanzee killing bush baby~

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Okay… that was just a joke.  Here is a real picture of the bush baby

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Courtesy from David Haring’s website www.haringphoto.com/about

And appeared in Science the images of chimpanzee shooting a spear.
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Courtesy P. BERTOLANI/CAMBRIDGE (PHOTO AND INSET)

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Well… survival of the fittest at work here… we need to tell Bush to stop teaching chimps how to make high-tech weapons!

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