Clever Monkeys

[iowa trout]

I just watched a program on Iowa Public Television Nature Series titled "Clever Monkeys". Monkeys were conscientiously selecting hard stones from a creek bed and carrying them to a large pitted flat stone area where they used their selected hammer stones to crack nuts. Anybody have any monkey hammer stones or seen any monkeys carrying spears?

 

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[all_atv]

I'll have to watch for that show, But I did see the same on Oprahs Nature series a while back. I believed all the "nutting stones" people were posting were just geofacts, till I saw that. Now I belive.

 

[iowa trout]

Does put a twist on things irrelevant to North American artifacts ?I wonder how long it took of learned behavior to choose the hardstones ?

 

[Tnmountains]

Not from my tribe. But animals are clever. I saw that some time ago.

 

[oldgoat]

I bet one of em was kin to Michelle Obama......

Bad, treefrog, bad....lol

 

[sorefoot]

I don't know about clever monkeys, but....

I don't know about clever monkeys, but I saw a bunch of dumb jacka$$es errect a building over a civil war camp that I used to hunt. They would not let me excavate prior their construction.

 

[NorCal Gal]

I saw another show on PBS where they were talking about relative brain size of early humans and the change in diet that it took to support later humans' larger brains and they showed monkeys cracking nuts with stones on top of a large stone, too!

 

[JUNKYARD DOG]

I bet one of em was kin to Michelle Obama......

treefrog my two grandchildren are half black, do you think they need to see or hear this crap... Grow up!
wes

 

[Rege-PA]

I read this forum because of it`s learning potential. Let`s keep it that way. That comment should be deleted.

 

[Treefrog]

sorry guys didn't mean to offend anyone.

Tree

 

[JUNKYARD DOG]

sorry guys didn't mean to offend anyone.

Tree

sounds OK to me, i kinda got carried away with the grow up thing. take care and good luck treefrog. wish you many good finds. wes

 

[Rege-PA]

Nice to be back on track...or should I say making tracks in the fields.
Good finds to both of you.