My spearfishing Monkey and me

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My spearfishing Monkey and me - 11/11/2008 6:07:38 PM

KJH807

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well... i guess its an orangutan
this thread will begin with the spear-fishing ape and will be continuously hijacked (but please fishing related only)
as we don't want to see it bumped to the off-topic board

here is the back story

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A male orangutan, clinging precariously to overhanging branches, flails the water with a pole, trying desperately to spear a passing fish.

It is the first time one has been seen using a tool to hunt.

The extraordinary image, a world exclusive, was taken in Borneo on the island of Kaja, where apes are rehabilitated into the wild after being rescued from zoos, private homes or even butchers' shops.
"Orang hutan" means "forest man" in one of Indonesia's many languages and our long-armed cousins do indeed show a remarkable ability to mimic our behaviour.

This individual had seen locals fishing with spears on the Gohong River.

Although the method required too much skill for him to master, he was later able to improvise by using the pole to catch fish already trapped in the locals' fishing lines.

The image is part of a series taken for a new book, The Thinkers Of The Jungle, which also includes the first photograph of an orangutan swimming.

Thinkers Of The Jungle, by Gerd Schuster, Willie Smits and Jay Ullal, is published by Ullmann Publishing on May 5, RRP £29.99.

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RE: My spearfishing Monkey and me - 11/11/2008 6:10:32 PM

deetz4352

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I thought it was an ORANGE-A-TANG ?

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RE: My spearfishing Monkey and me - 11/11/2008 6:16:39 PM

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i think i've seen something like that around stop sign Sunday morning, this foreign guy snagged at least 50 fish in an hour just below stop sign. He was like a kid in the candy store until someone went over to him and added his 2 cents. He walked right throw the middle of the creek to give it to him too.

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RE: My spearfishing Monkey and me - 11/11/2008 6:17:27 PM

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