as small as a world and as large as alone

1:24pm April 9, 2012

tealeavesla:

Primate Uprising Update:

Meet Kanzi. He’s a bonobo, a species in the Great Ape family that was previously known as the pygmy chimpanzee. Scientists who study primates know that apes and chimpanzees often use twigs and leaves for tools, but Kanzi is going one step further into “human” territory.

He can make a fire. He gathers kindling, breaks it up, strikes a match, then cooks some food over the open flame.

They’ve mastered fire, ladies and gentlemen. Prepare to walk out your front door one day to see cigarette-smoking chimps driving cars down your street. It’s coming.

I love this bonobo guy. But the woman… she’s more okay than most, probably, but she reminds me a bit of staff. In a not so great way. So I’m kind of ambivalent about her, there’s a lot of her clones running around human services for DD people. (And I notice people talk about other primates the same way they talk about us.)

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