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Re:In a first, chimpanzees seen smashing and eating tortoises by nipponese on Thursday May 23, 2019 @05:40PM (#19996284)
Wait until chimps figure out how to refine oil and use combustion engines.
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Re:In a first, chimpanzees seen smashing and eating tortoises by angstrom on Thursday May 23, 2019 @06:01PM (#19996464)
When you consider the effort to get to that stage of locomotion it's amazing that flying birds haven't advanced faster technologically.
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Re:In a first, chimpanzees seen smashing and eating tortoises by emmelaich on Thursday May 23, 2019 @10:47PM (#19998042)
I guess birds (and most animals) have a hit a local minimum that they'll never climb out of.
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Re:In a first, chimpanzees seen smashing and eating tortoises by Kye on Thursday May 23, 2019 @11:12PM (#19998158)
Humans got lucky with figuring out fire. Fire simplifies everything.
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