Tool use is defined as “the employment of an unattached environmental object to alter more efficiently the form, position, or condition of another object, another organism, or the user itself when the user holds or carries the tool during or just prior to use and is responsible for the proper and effective orientation of the tool”
Beck’s classic book defines six different types of tools: objects thrown at predators or rivals, objects used to hit predators, hunting weapons (only hominids), objects incorporated into social displays, objects to clean body parts, and objects made and used to acquire food, such as insects or nuts.
Information on tool use and factors favoring tool use in wild apes helps us to understand its importance in the evolution of our own species. Although there are reports of tool use by captive gorillas, including object throwing and use of tools in feeding, there has been to our knowledge no reported case of tool use in by wild gorillas, despite decades of field research.
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Let me stop you there pal.
We first observed an adult female gorilla using a branch as a walking stick to test water deepness and to aid in her attempt to cross a pool of water at Mbeli Bai, a swampy forest clearing in northern Congo.
In the second case we saw another adult female using a detached trunk from a small shrub as a stabilizer during food processing. She then used the trunk as a self-made bridge to cross a deep patch of swamp.
In contrast to information from other great apes, which mostly show tool use in the context of food extraction, our observations show that in gorillas other factors such as habitat type can stimulate the use of tools.
But one question remains unanswered. Why aren’t they using Linux? Hmm? Toolsloppers? Care to chime in?
The future is coming on
It’s coming on, it’s coming on
It’s coming on, it’s coming onI’m happy! I’m feeling glad!
I got sunshine in a bag.
I’m useless, but not for long… the monkey stick is coming on its coming on its coming on
Windows and Apple are proprietary software made by companies to extract profit from its users. Being a tool is a second purpose as many things have extracted profit without having an immediate use. Linux is Free and Open Source Software made by the community as a tool primarily serving the users’ needs and liberating then from the ruling class. Gorilla ToolsTM are provided by nature requiring little to no modification by the using individual. This is the ultimate evolution of FOSS as it liberates us entirely from other more skilled tool creators.
I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Gorilla ToolsTM, is in fact, Monke/Gorilla ToolsTM, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, Monke plus Gorilla ToolsTM. Gorilla ToolsTM is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning Monke system made useful by the Monke corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the Monke system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of Monke which is widely used today is often called Gorilla ToolsTM, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the Monke system, developed by the Monke Project.
There really is a Gorilla ToolsTM, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Gorilla ToolsTM is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Gorilla ToolsTM is normally used in combination with the Monke operating system: the whole system is basically Monke with Gorilla ToolsTM added, or Monke/Gorilla ToolsTM. All the so-called Gorilla ToolsTM distributions are really distributions of Monke/Gorilla ToolsTM!
Beanis slop
thats the other type of post I do.
So what you gotta do is just play a bunch of Black Sabbath chords – E or A minor blues scale stuff, especially hitting those diminished fifths – over some weird-ass time signature, like 27/8, and chuck a Fibonacci sequence in there somewhere and… Hey, are you still listening?
I’m actually paying extremely close attention and taking notes.
It’s true. A few years ago I tried to walk to the town center after getting kicked out for not being abled to pay the rent for my car and house but I got lost in the woods trying to find a shortcut. I was afraid to call the emergency services because I didn’t want to be further in debt so I thought oh well I might as well make a home here and so I did. A few months later a gorilla came to my humble twig shelter and told me I am here illegally and the I have to pay up or he will go to the chief and I would have to pay him and everyone in the court too. I told him that all I had was bananas and he could have it but he called me a bigot and said that’s extra. They put me in a kangaroo court and (those kangaroos were really mean btw) and decidee that I would have to pay them in subscription licenses for ehh I think it was called david blane’s gbrass or something and i don’t even remember the rest of their names. I told them I am poor and unwilling to violate their freedoms and they can crucify me or use open source and then they put me in a cave and gave me a lot of grok tokens and forced me to generate stuff until I make enough money for them to buy their favorite toolslop. My debt has compounded over the years. Save me
That’s so fucked up comrade. Laugh out loud hilarious but really quite sad and troubling.
I’m not going anywhere near those toolslopping gorillas, sorry to say you’re on your own. It’s not that I’m worried I just find the toolslop guys in the woods to be really tedious and annoying.
I hope the cave’s nice at least!
The cave is kind of cold but it beats being out in the rain/heat. My only entertainment was drawing on walls in secret in the dark but last month one of them caught me and started laughing and brought their friends along and they all laughed at me >:( They are running all kinda of schemes here to get their subscriptions but a lot of creatures (one of them is an extraterrestrial) managed to get away because they don’t care about their freedoms but some of them are also stuck here because they are unwilling to part with their toolslop subscriptions.
Beck’s classic book defines six different types of tools: objects thrown at predators or rivals, objects used to hit predators, hunting weapons (only hominids), objects incorporated into social displays, objects to clean body parts, and objects made and used to acquire food, such as insects or nuts.
Forgetting a significant category aren’t we, Beck?
that’s such an embarrassing oversight. doubt Beck’s gonna go running their mouth again any time soon.
