To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (122803 ) 1/5/2004 6:09:05 AM From: Hawkmoon Read Replies (2) | Respond to I'm reading Jane Goodall's "The Chimpanzees of Gombe, Patterns of Behavior". That's where my info came from; it's the first book I've read of primate behavior. Many chimpanzees in zoos and other forms of captivity will show the following examples of behavior with more frequency: over grooming skin patches on arms and legs, continual rocking, spitting, and feces throwing. cwu.edu Male chimps like to throw missiles-whatever is handy, generally sticks and stones. (Like the inmates of college fraternity houses, they also occasionally throw food.) Females are much less interested in missiles. Chimps would throw stones at the visitors who gawk at them in the traditional kind of zoo-if they had stones. As it is, all they have is feces. When wild chimps are presented with a fairly realistic mechanical leopard, after a reassurance frenzy of screams, hugs, and mutual mountings, they find appropriate clubs and beat the effigy to death-or at least until they knock the stuffing out. Or they'll pelt it with stones. (In the same circumstance, baboons will furiously attack the leopard, but without a thought of using clubs. Baboons just don't know about tools.) mc.maricopa.edu
