Monkey Buisness

[SteamWake]

no not the boat :haha:

I thought this was a joke when I first heard of it but evidently Taliban are training monkeys to use weapons :o

http://news.discovery.com/animals/taliban-training-monkey-terrorists.html

[TLAM Strike]

Been posted here already... :03:

[Dowly]

So we have a story built on rumor, with no named sources, quoting a media source of unknown origin. Personally, I think a clever monkey could be behind the whole thing.

NATO spokesman Lt. Col. Todd Breasseale told Schogol, “We have absolutely nothing that leads us to believe that this tale could be even remotely based in reality."

Christopher Coe, director of the Harlow Center for Biological Psychology (http://psych.wisc.edu/primatelab/primatelabhome.html), also is quoted as saying, “While you could train a monkey to shoot a gun, I certainly wouldn’t want to be anywhere in the neighborhood after that. I rather doubt you could trust its aim,” he said. “In addition, the noise would certainly scare most animals and make them stop.”
Coe added that he'd heard rumors before about monkeys wielding grenades when India and Pakistan were at war, but no one has yet been able to prove that actually happened.


What I have quoted is give or take 80% of the text in the entire article... you do read the stuff before you post it, right?

[SteamWake]

I wasent even going to post it but it keeps popping up on 'news' sites all over the place.

[krashkart]

It must be a popular story to distribute. At first I thought "Huh?", but there was a discussion elsewhere that began to tear it apart pretty good.

OTOH, primates have been observed sharpening sticks with their teeth, and then using those sticks like tools. Give them a few million more years and they too can invent their own assault rifles. :up:

[TLAM Strike]

OTOH, primates have been observed sharpening sticks with their teeth, and then using those sticks like tools. Give them a few million more years and they too can invent their own assault rifles. :up:
Why do they need to invent them? Just hand them an AK-47, they will figure it out sooner or later.

[krashkart]

Why do they need to invent them? Just hand them an AK-47, they will figure it out sooner or later.

You are probably correct in that, but it could violate the prime directive. :hmmm:

[TLAM Strike]

You are probably correct in that, but it could violate the prime directive. :hmmm:

If the Klingons begin arming other tool using animals say Elephants with G3s we may have to...

[Ducimus]

Been posted here already... :03:

:hmmm: Ok then...

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