Monkeys and Swedes

Sweden can now add another item on an already impressive list of exports that include a bikini team, meatballs, low-priced furniture assembled with Allen wrenches, and people named Christensen.

Scientists at a zoo in Furuvik, a town about 90 miles north of Stockholm - and not a sofabed at IKEA like one might think - have been monitoring Santino the Chimp in the hopes of figuring out how premeditated his actions really are.

For ten years, they've been observing him in his cage and the study's defining moment came last week when Santino hurled rocks at zoo visitors from a stash he'd gathered earlier. Researchers were not only amazed that he created a stash to begin with, but that he also waited until mid-day to hurl the rocks.

While we imagine that the zoo visitors were thankful that Santino threw rocks and not...other stuff...we can't figure out why this study isn't a bigger deal right now. How come more people don't know about the relevance of these findings? How is THIS not front page news?

Can't people see how important it is that monkeys stack rocks BEFORE they throw them at a bunch of Swedes who've kept them caged up for TEN YEARS? It's like rediscovering the polio vaccine and no one cares.

Honestly...sometimes we wonder if the media is just run by a bunch of chimps.

Thanks to MEvBLOG reader "LV" for alerting us to this!