# Wild monkeys invented weapons

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**Created:** [February 23, 2007, 3:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/wild-monkeys-invented-weapons/217151 "2007-02-23T15:01:50Z")
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### Author: ![puppy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e56c9b/32.png) [@puppy](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/puppy)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2007, 3:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/wild-monkeys-invented-weapons/217151/1 "2007-02-23T15:01:50Z")

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congratulations. if we ever die out, they will finish our planet off.

> Chimpanzees living on the West African savanna have been observed fashioning spears from sticks and using them to hunt small mammals — the first routine production of deadly weapons observed in animals other than humans.

…grasping the weapon in a “power grip,” they jabbed into tree-branch hollows where bush babies — small monkey-like mammals — sleep during the day…

Pruetz thought it was a fluke, but then saw similar weapon- making herself “over the course of 19 days almost daily,” she said.

It was typically females who displayed the behavior.

[LA Times](http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-fg-spears23feb23,0,6521426.story?coll=la-home-headlines)