Saturday, June 20, 2009
Gorilla Gets A Knife
From Red Orbit:
An Official at the Calgary Zoo in Canada say the gorilla that visitors had photographed holding a knife had no intent for violence.
The photos showed Barika, the gorilla, holding the blade and pointing it at another gorilla in her cage.
The knife was left behind by a zookeeper who had entered the cage to prepare food, Cathy Gaviller, the zoo's director of conservation, education and research, said.
[...]
...primates will pick up new items in their cages because they are curious, but they quickly get bored if they cannot eat the object or figure out a use for it, she said.
[...]
Gorillas do use tools in captivity, but they have no concept of using weapons and would have never thought to be violent with a knife, Gaviller said.
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Labels: Blame America, Gorilla With Knife
It doesn't take a zoologist and 12 years of PHD studies to figure that one out.
I think the the "zoo's director of conservation, education and research" is making a statement that is more geared to political-animal correctness than it is factual.
In fact, I once witnessed in Florida a medium sized poodle in a back yard successfully using nunchucks to defend itself against a 10-foot long wayward alligator that thought of the poodle as a mid-day snack.
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