Today, the zoo...

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I love the tone of this article: Chimp planned rock attacks on zoo visitors.

Aww! Look at how ingenious his plots are to kill the zoo visitors! And see the sociopathic calm with which he prepares his weapons! Isn't nature inspiring?

I also like the way chimps disprove all those fluffy ideas about animals being too simple and pure for war and cruelty. I saw a doco once where one chimp cheerfully beckoned a park keeper (with whom he had an established relationship) over while his friends snuck around the other side to bring him down (the keeper outsmarted them, but geeze)

Really it's the same sort of anthropocentrism that leads to people arguing that animals don't have love or real language or whatever: humans being a special kind of nasty is still us being special.

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Trust me, I'm not going to get into an argument with animal rights activists, and I'm certainly not going to do it on your space :)

And yeh, I think I'm just going to walk away from this. There's some stuff that it would be interesting to talk about with you but this one is too emotionally charged for me.

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Thankyou. I reached my limit for "arguments about animal rights that I can't walk away from(*)" some time in the late 90s :/

(*)Though I'd like to make it clear that I have no problem with them if I can walk away :)