{"id":1041,"date":"2009-03-10T09:44:46","date_gmt":"2009-03-10T13:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/?p=1041"},"modified":"2009-03-10T09:44:46","modified_gmt":"2009-03-10T13:44:46","slug":"1041","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/10\/1041\/","title":{"rendered":"Throwing Stones at Humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment\" aria-labelledby=\"figcaption_attachment\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 148px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/SantinoChimpanzee.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/SantinoChimpanzee.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some idiot is bound to start throwing stones back at Santino.<\/figcaption><\/figure>The Grumpy Vegan can&#8217;t help but feel smug with satisfaction at the news of Santino, a 31-year-old male chimpanzee imprisoned at the Furuvik zoo in Sweden, collecting and throwing stones at people who come to gawk at him. <\/p>\n<p>Of course, the media find the story fascinating. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/science\/2009\/mar\/09\/chimp-zoo-stones-science\"><em>The Guardian<\/em><\/a> calls his behavior &#8220;loutish.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/03\/09\/AR2009030901458_2.html?hpid=sec-nation\"><em>The Washington Post<\/em><\/a> end their report with the revelation that<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In order to decrease his agitation, which was fueled in part by high testosterone levels characteristic of dominant males, the animal was castrated last fall.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Tis pity that every male human who throws stones isn&#8217;t castrated as well. OK. That&#8217;s a bit strong. But, you&#8217;ve got to admit, men with guns are a problem. Maybe castration would be the answer. <\/p>\n<p>Back to the media, however. <\/p>\n<p>They, of course, find Santino&#8217;s example of planning and execution further evidence about human behavior. <em>The Guardian<\/em> says it &#8220;challenged scientists&#8217; beliefs about human beings.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, the Grumpy Vegan thinks scientists (and most people, now you mention it) can&#8217;t see what&#8217;s immediately in front of them. Chimpanzee throwing stones in a zoo says <em>exactly<\/em> what about us? <\/p>\n<p>Surely, imprisoning animals like chimpanzees in zoos says a lot more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Grumpy Vegan can&#8217;t help but feel smug with satisfaction at the news of Santino, a 31-year-old male chimpanzee imprisoned at the Furuvik zoo in Sweden, collecting and throwing stones at people who come to gawk at him. Of course, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/10\/1041\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[14,37],"class_list":["post-1041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-rights","tag-animals-in-entertainment","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}