Quest for Fire by dreamtrove

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Quest for Fire

POSTED BY: DREAMTROVE
UPDATED: Sunday, January 8, 2012 19:53
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Wednesday, January 4, 2012 7:40 PM

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Dr Savage-Rumbaugh, of the Great Ape Trust, in Des Moines, Iowa, adds: ‘Kanzi makes fire because he wants to. He used to watch the film Quest For Fire when he was very young which was about early man struggling to control fire. He watched it spellbound over and over hundreds of times.

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That's what a ship is, you know - it's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that's what a ship needs.

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Thursday, January 5, 2012 3:19 AM

FREMDFIRMA

So I guess now when I bust on someone at a fast food joint and tell em I could train a monkey to do their job it's less of a joke, ehe ?

That's okay, I mock tollbooth operators in the same fashion, and I KNOW a monkey could do that job!

Ook Ook Eek Ack!

-F

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Thursday, January 5, 2012 4:41 AM

BYTEMITE

It begins.

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Thursday, January 5, 2012 5:07 AM

CAVETROLL

Toll booth operators are being replaced by EZPass. They haven't figured out a way for RFID cards to flip burgers yet.

I wonder how many professions we've lost in the last 50 years? The last 100?

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Thursday, January 5, 2012 11:16 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

Ok, Kanzi didn't actually figure out how to MAKE fire, sans instruments/ instruction...but he seems to understand what it does, basically. I wonder if this video were taken at night, would he show more interest in the fire ? I know humans love to sit around the fire and stare into it... whether it's cooking our food or not. Kanzi didn't really seem to care too much for it, 'cept for when food was being cooked. He'd sit far away from it, and had either his back or side towards it. It's almost as if he were being promoted to interact w/ it, with cooking a marshmallow or watching the lady cook something, or when it was time to put it out.

Still, pretty interesting.

"The world is a dangerous place. Not because of the people who are evil; but because of the people who don't do anything about it." - Albert Einstein

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves. - Someone.

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Thursday, January 5, 2012 3:27 PM

DREAMTROVE

I suspect if Kanzi had a family of his own that he was cooking food for using this knowledge that he'd take far more interest in the fire, as it would be his demonstration of awesomeness. Here, he is merely a student, though he seems to have initiated the idea, he seems to need help with it. It would be curious to see if that help were taken away, but the tools remained, if he would do it, and what he would do differently if he had an ape audience.

That's what a ship is, you know - it's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that's what a ship needs.

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Sunday, January 8, 2012 7:53 PM

RIONAEIRE

Beir bua agus beannacht

Kanzie is creepy, I don't like him.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

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