On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 23:50:01 -0700, Allen Esterson wrote: >On 26 October Michael Sylvester wrote: >>I saw a program on Jane Goodall where she saw chimps use >>sticks to fetch ants from an ant hill. She was fascinated by their >>tool utilization and alerted the scientific community who initially >>remained skeptical. > >I've been an avid follower of Jane Goodall's work since I read >*In the Shadow of Man* in 1971, and I don't recall that the scientific >community as a whole initially remained sceptical of her observations >about the use of small branches shorn of their leaves to entice ants >out of nests so they could eat them. Nor do I recall anything like this >being said in the recent BBC biographical documentary on Goodall >http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00v9j22
I'm sure there's probably a psychoanalytic explanation for people's fixation on chimpanzees eating ants but the fact of the matter is that Goddall observed the chimpanzees eating TERMITES. Don't take my word for it, consider the "Jane Goodall Institute of Canada" as a source, eh? http://www.janegoodall.ca/about-chimp-behaviour-tool-use.php -Mike Palij New York University [email protected] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=6031 or send a blank email to leave-6031-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
