Researchers find poop-throwing by chimps is a sign of intelligence

November 30, 2011 by Bob Yirka

Common chimpanzee in the Leipzig Zoo. Image credit: Thomas Lersch, via Wikipedia.

(PhysOrg.com) -- A lot of people who have gone to the zoo have become the targets of feces thrown by apes or monkeys, and left no doubt wondering about the so-called intellectual capacity of a beast that would resort to such foul play.

Now however, researchers studying such behavior have come to the conclusion that throwing feces, or any object really, is actually a sign of high ordered behavior. Bill Hopkins of Emory University and his colleagues have been studying the whole process behind throwing and the impact it has on brain development, and have published their results in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.

No ****

Hummm...wonder how this relates to primates who stir **** (*grin*)

Is this another way of saying I have had enough **** or **** on you or take that ****

I woulda thought throwing **** was a sign of boredom. What else they gotta do but excite the human idiots staring at them? Oh wait...I guess that does point to intelligence.

 if you locked ME  in a cage I would  DEFINITELY   throw poop .... as a mater of fact if you came near me and I had the chance I'd BITE  ya, take yer keys  and KILL  ya on the way out the DO .... NEXT  question ? 

Do we  Seriously  think we have a Right  to lock innocent , intelligent  animals up for Life  for doing Nothing ?  For our Entertainment ?!!!   

 is that  buh- bye   as in good  luck  or buy bye as in  ur   ?      Jes  sayin '  

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