HailRobonia: RolandGunner: Bonobo also happens to be the famously sex crazed primate that has the distinction of being the only other animal that is known to masturbate.

You mean aside from dolphins, orangutans, elk, walruses, bears, boars, cats, bats, dogs, hogs, elephants, antelopes, pheasants, ferrets, giraffes, gazeles, stats, goats, shoats, ostriches, penguins, people, warthogs, yaks, wildebeests..... and especially rabbits!

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I can confirm this, in relevant part, to be true.

dittybopper: cman: Just now, or could it be that this is the first time that we have witnessed this and they have been doing this for centuries?

RTF: Someone taught this particular chimp how to make and use primitive stone tools, probably along the lines of the Oldowan industry. It's actually a neat experiment, because Kanzi, the Bonobo they taught, was able to better exploit hidden and inaccessible food because he could make stone tools that would allow him to get at the food, having a 10x greater success rate than his non-tool making peers.

Damn I'm smart:

Kanzi's accomplishments also include tool use and tool crafting. Kanzi is an accomplished stone tool maker and can flake Oldowan style cutting knives. He learned this skill from Dr. Nick Toth, who is an anthropologist with the Stone Age Institute in Bloomington, Indiana. The stone knives Kanzi creates are very sharp and can cut animal hide and thick ropes.

farkindood: Favorited. Should have happened long ago. :)

/biologist
//wildlife and ecology geeks unite!
///carnivorous slashies.

Thanks.

I'm not a scientician by any means, I've just given a lot of thought to how and why people hunt, and why I hunt personally. Most people, including some very smart people, don't understand the difference between the different sorts of hunting, or most probably it just never occurred to them that there was a difference: The guy who goes after that elusive Boone and Crockett set of antlers to mount on his wall is the same to them as the guy slaughtering bison by the hundreds from a train in order to sell the hides.

hdhale: ManateeGag: swangoatman: Being democrat President 2008-2012

0/10 - too obvious . try again

How about being lured on a bus and taken some place so they can be walked by the hand through the process of voting for the full Democrat slate through absentee ballot without having to show a single piece of ID or proof of residence of any kind?

better, but a bit wordy.

traylor: dittybopper: Yeah, but we had to teach Kanzi how to do it. And I bet they didn't look as good as these:

My first attempts at making stone tools:


I hate to be the one to drop bad news on you but those aren't stone tools. That semi-transparent material is known to modern humans as glass.

You know what obsidian is? Naturally occurring volcanic glass. There is *ZERO* difference between working a piece of obsidian (the black shiny stuff), and a beer bottle bottom (the green ones). They flake identically, because they are both glass.

traylor: Good. Next, tell me, that there's no difference between stone and glass.

The one by itself? That's flint, not obsidian. And yeah, it's a stone.

BTW, I'm finally gonna do it this year: Use knapped arrowheads for hunting:

dittybopper: You know what obsidian is?

I know it takes farking forever to mine! And, you have to be careful, because there's usually lava underneath it! And, you can construct nether portals with it...

RobSeace: dittybopper: You know what obsidian is?

I know it takes farking forever to mine! And, you have to be careful, because there's usually lava underneath it! And, you can construct nether portals with it...

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I just buy spalls of it from 3Rivers Archery. Much safer that way.

lokisbong: So if a guy wanted to get into knapping flint and obsidian would you suggest them making their own tools or buying a kit like that site sells? I have thought about trying this before and have never found the materials to start. The tools look easy enough to create on your own. the reason I ask is the kit they sell seems to use aluminum instead of copper like most of the home made sets have.

I made my own tools, mainly because I did it on a whim at first.

Grab a piece of nice thick leather or get some good leather gloves with nice thick palms. You can make a pressure flaker from a piece of thick, stiff copper wire and a dowel. You can buy antler billets specifically for knapping. 3Rivers Archery sells them, for one. My dad happened to have an old antler around from making a knife handle, so I use that. Then all you need is a decent rock for a hammer stone, if you chose to do hard-hammer percussion.

I should point out that there is nothing wrong with buying the tools, I just don't have any experience with them, and I'm still learning the craft myself.