UM-Bot Posted October 1, 2014 #1 Share Posted October 1, 2014 Researchers have captured evidence of chimpanzees learning a new type of tool use from one another. While it is already well established that chimps use tools to perform a number of different tasks, it is still extremely rare to observe the discovery of a new tool and to see its use being shared and adopted across a community of wild chimpanzees. Read More: http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/273086/wild-chimp-culture-caught-on-camera 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldorado Posted October 1, 2014 #2 Share Posted October 1, 2014 Chimpanzee drill sergeants soon? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paperdyer Posted October 1, 2014 #3 Share Posted October 1, 2014 Quick send Uri Geller. Maybe the Chimps are psychic! Wait, no money in that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odds Posted October 2, 2014 #4 Share Posted October 2, 2014 It's finally happening. First they take the sponges, next the guns, the cities and our lives. Maniacs. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Insaniac Posted October 2, 2014 #5 Share Posted October 2, 2014 Awesome thread. Chimps are absolutely wonderful creatures, as are all Primates and Apes. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imaginarynumber1 Posted October 3, 2014 #6 Share Posted October 3, 2014 Awesome thread. Chimps are absolutely wonderful creatures, as are all Primates and Apes. All apes are primates.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Insaniac Posted October 3, 2014 #7 Share Posted October 3, 2014 All apes are primates.... Meant to say Monkey's but got it mixed up. Sorry. Amazing avatar by the way. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imaginarynumber1 Posted October 3, 2014 #8 Share Posted October 3, 2014 Meant to say Monkey's but got it mixed up. Sorry. Amazing avatar by the way. But.. but all monkeys are primates, too... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Insaniac Posted October 3, 2014 #9 Share Posted October 3, 2014 But.. but all monkeys are primates, too... Are you pulling my leg, Number? Maybe I know less about the Monkey kingdom than I thought I did. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imaginarynumber1 Posted October 3, 2014 #10 Share Posted October 3, 2014 Are you pulling my leg, Number? Maybe I know less about the Monkey kingdom than I thought I did. I never kid when it comes to primates! The living primates today are comprised of the platyrrhines (new world monkeys, prosimians) and catarrhines (old world monkeys and apes, including humans). Which can alternately be divided by anthropoid and prosimian as well as stresirhines and haplorines. Basically, you have the prosimians; The Lorisiformers (Galagos and Lorises), The Lemuriforms (Lemurs, Indri, all the primates native to Madagascar) and the Tarsiers. Then you have the anthropoids of New and Old World Monkeys, Apes and Humans. All primates. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Insaniac Posted October 3, 2014 #11 Share Posted October 3, 2014 I never kid when it comes to primates! The living primates today are comprised of the platyrrhines (new world monkeys, prosimians) and catarrhines (old world monkeys and apes, including humans). Which can alternately be divided by anthropoid and prosimian as well as stresirhines and haplorines. Basically, you have the prosimians; The Lorisiformers (Galagos and Lorises), The Lemuriforms (Lemurs, Indri, all the primates native to Madagascar) and the Tarsiers. Then you have the anthropoids of New and Old World Monkeys, Apes and Humans. All primates. Hm. So which one do the Silverbacks fit into? The Anthropoids? Humbly, I'm not entirely sure I believe in this, if this is what the theory of evolution teaches, as I'm not persuaded that Darwin always tells the truth. I know that was random, but it could be related to your comment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imaginarynumber1 Posted October 3, 2014 #12 Share Posted October 3, 2014 Hm. So which one do the Silverbacks fit into? The Anthropoids? Humbly, I'm not entirely sure I believe in this, if this is what the theory of evolution teaches, as I'm not persuaded that Darwin always tells the truth. I know that was random, but it could be related to your comment. Apes are anthropoids. Evolution shows how closely related all the primates are. All primates have a petrosla bulla, a post orbital bar, grasping hands and feet, retain 5 digits, have tactile pads on their finger tips, binocular, color vision, etc. I could go on, but you get the point. These are traits the primates all share. You can look back through the fossil record and chart the rise of primates from the primitive eutherian mammal. You can see the post orbit bar form, the orbital plates close, the dentition shape it's to what it is now and even see where branched split. From the plesiadapiforms in the paleocene like carpolestes, the first mammal with grasping hands and feet. The first appearance of true primates in the Eocene, the adapoids and the omoyoids that lead to the lorisforms and the lemuriforms and even what maybe early anthropoids. You have Apidium in the Oligocene that is a great candidate for the last common ancestor of New and Old world monkeys. And then good ol' Proconsul in the Miocene. The "first" ape. It's all there. You don't need Darwin. You just follow the evidence. Morphology, genetics, taxonomy, anatomy. It's all there. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artaxerxes Posted October 16, 2014 #13 Share Posted October 16, 2014 Imaginary1 your posts about the evolution of primates are excellent. I enjoyed them very much. You are a storehouse of knowledge about primate evolution. Seriously amazing. Thanks, Art 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artaxerxes Posted October 16, 2014 #14 Share Posted October 16, 2014 I've often wondered which ancestor, Omomyids or Adapids, the anthropoid line evolved from? I know this is silly but sometimes when I'm looking at human faces I think I see or believe I see the Adapid face with the two large front incisors and lower tooth comb of the lower front incisors. I wish I could go back in time and see those early ancestors of ours. It would be so interesting. <grin!> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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