Chimps and Tools
These chimps seem very smart indeed. Especially the women. I guess I'm not surprised after all we have read this term about the intelligence of animals, and chimps in particular. I'm always fretting about eating meat, and ironically this made me feel better because it shows that meat eating is just a natural thing. It seems like so far, chimps haven't gotten caught up in neurotic guilt cycles.
Colossal Squid
I read an article in the New Yorker years ago about colossal sguid. Fishermen have been saying that they've seen them for years. Marine biologists scoffed at the idea and said the fishermen were just hallucinating, that this was merely the stuff of folklore like mermaids. When I read that article, they still hadn't caught one. In 2004 they finally did, and this is one is even bigger. Who knows, maybe mermaids are next...
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