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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumsare macaques using stone tools
do we have an "animal rights" forum, because this needs to be on the radar.
if, as this article indicate, macaques are teaching their young to make and use stone tools, they have entered a paleolithic era.
that alone entitles them to, i think, extraordinary protection , not only as endangered or threatened species (macaques usually don't qualify) but as fully sentient beings.
should we help them along? or should we enact some kind of "prime directive?."
my instinct is to allow them to make their own mistakes.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-stone-wielding-macaques-can-tell-us-about-early-human-tool-use/
Drum
(9,662 posts)And yes, there is a forum:
Vegetarian, Vegan and Animal Rights
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1131
or
Science
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1228
rampartc
(5,835 posts)LeftInTX
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rampartc
(5,835 posts)and i'm sure there is wide variance on this development.
that ability to steal is an even greater indication of intelligence than tool use.
thanks for those videos.
LeftInTX
(29,689 posts)Here is a thief/bartering video
I guess you could call macaques "peridomestic" (thrive around humans)...Raccoons would fall into this category. Because raccoons have hands similar to our hands, they quickly have learned to use them to open garbage cans and get into things.
rampartc
(5,835 posts)he isn't very afraid of me or the cats.
True Dough
(19,899 posts)more intelligent than MAGAts.
rampartc
(5,835 posts)if they can pass a cognitive test they should be able to vote.