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Shadow
12-04-2011, 02:38 PM
Tossing feces with pinpoint accuracy may not immediately strike you as sophisticated behavior, but researchers studying the brain activity of captive chimpanzees have found that the smartest apes also happen to pitch the most accurate poop, according to Physorg.com (http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-11-poop-throwing-chimps-intelligence.html).

Playing dodgeball with poop-wielding chimpanzees may sound like an odd career choice, but Bill Hopkins of Emory University, who spent the last several years observing the throwing accuracy and brain scans of chimpanzees, had a hunch that this behavior had a deeper significance.


http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/stories/poop-throwing-by-chimps-may-actually-be-a-sign-of-intelligence

This Atricle amuses me LOL

Love Monkey
12-05-2011, 12:20 PM
Sounds like something a Democrat monkey would do. A Republican monkey would never do anything like that.

Trigg
12-05-2011, 05:09 PM
please tell me they didn't receive stimulus money to conduct this usefull study

Little-Acorn
12-05-2011, 05:32 PM
Poop-throwing by chimps may actually be a sign of intelligence


So there may be hope yet for psychoblues, gabby, and the other board trolls? :)