{"id":605,"date":"2005-10-22T21:05:24","date_gmt":"2005-10-23T01:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2005\/10\/22\/hammer-and-anvil\/"},"modified":"2005-10-22T21:05:24","modified_gmt":"2005-10-23T01:05:24","slug":"hammer-and-anvil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/10\/22\/hammer-and-anvil\/","title":{"rendered":"Hammer and Anvil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a7263'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td height=\"286\">\n<p align=\"justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/gorillatool.jpg\" width=\"325\" height=\"450\" align=\"left\">The infant 2 1\/2-year-old female gorilla<br \/>\n        named Itebero, seen smashing palm nuts between rocks in a &quot;hammer<br \/>\n        and anvil&quot; technique, at the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International<br \/>\n        sanctuary in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo on Saturday, Oct, 8,<br \/>\n        2005. <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">This premeditated use of stones and sticks to accomplish<br \/>\n        a task like cracking nuts, which was considered among the most complex<br \/>\n        tool<br \/>\n          use behaviors, is intriguing scientists who say they have much to learn<br \/>\n          about what gorillas can do, and about the inplications on our knowledge<br \/>\n          of evolution.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">(<a href=\"http:\/\/apnews.excite.com\/image\/20051018\/CONGO_NUTCRACKING_GORILLA.sff_CON101_20051018082857.html\">AP<br \/>\n      Photo<\/a>\/Anjan Sundaram)<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><em>We dated a girl in college who struck exactly that<br \/>\n          pose when using rocks to knock the caps off beer bottles. Uncanny resemblances&nbsp;like<br \/>\n        that are what convinces us of the scientific validity of evolution&#8230;.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The infant 2 1\/2-year-old female gorilla named Itebero, seen smashing palm nuts between rocks in a &quot;hammer and anvil&quot; technique, at the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International sanctuary in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo on Saturday, Oct, 8, 2005. This &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/10\/22\/hammer-and-anvil\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[576],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wacky-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}