someone please take this back to reddit where it belongs
Is this confirmed?
This is the Daily Mail...
I believe it is possible, specially that the article says that there were locals that used the same technique. It could very easily learn how to mimic human behaviour.
Looks like a spear to me.
I'm disappointed by your answer, but even more so that you have more than 1 upvote. For once, reddit provided more value to me than Hacker News:
The comment you cite has enough made up data and weak reasoning to make the daily mail look respectable. For actual data, let us turn to the internet. The February 2007 report involving chimpanzees does lend credibility to this orangutan picture:
I know. I'm just saying that was a lot more useful than any of the replies here. I don't know why I got downmodded.
Some local tribes think that orangutans are smart, just pretend to be dumb so they can slack off and skip work.
I call shenanigans (orangutan shenanigans nonetheless): if you look at the splash, you can tell he slapped the water and didn't actually "stab" as you would with a spear.
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why is monkey news being posted to hacker news?
I think that the use of tools is interesting to hackers. Startups and hackers invent new tools to make life easier; this article shows another species doing the same thing.
Anyway, I found the "article" (really just a picture with a few words) interesting.