“It was not surprising to me because they are very adaptive,” he said. “If you provide them with an opportunity to get something tasty, they will do their best to get it.”— Notre Dame anthropologist Agustin Fuentes expresses his respect for those who would share his fishing hole.
The march of evolution continues and it seems like the monkeys are starting to win…
The march of evolution continues and it seems like the monkeys are starting to win…
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Anthropologists in Indonesia have discovered a band of long-tailed macaques that have developed a particularly keen skill at harvesting fish, having moved on from the traditional past times of foraging for fruit, crabs and insects.
Anthropologists in Indonesia have discovered a band of long-tailed macaques that have developed a particularly keen skill at harvesting fish, having moved on from the traditional past times of foraging for fruit, crabs and insects.
It’s a study that has excited the scientific class quite a bit, who say we have much to learn from the macaques as far as adaptability to changing surroundings and patterns.
No doubt Jimmy Pattison is set to get the fishing macaques under contract, with salmon becoming more of a delicacy on the west coast and the BC commercial industry in a bit of a crisis, he’ll want to get this next labour group from afar into the corporate fold quickly…
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