Spear Hunting, Cave Dwelling Apes
by Kendall Clark
So at least two C&P people have something of an obsession with the great apes and lesser monkeys; I’m ready to grant them semi-legal rights, in fact. They’re as smart as very young human children and there’s little reason beyond mere speciesism to not treat them as at least quasi-persons. (But, eh, I’ll leave the rest of the lecture about the rights of the great apes for another, more appropriate time.)
That being said, I also love nothing more than a commercial featuring a chimpanzee in a business suit with a laser pointer…Oh, the irony.
I’m hereby inaugurating a new C&P weblog feature: Monkey Monday — one of us ape obsessifs will post something of interest about monkeys or apes every (okay, most) Mondays.
This week it’s a nice article about chimps hunting with spears and living in caves.