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First lethal attacks by chimpanzees on gorillas observed
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Re: First lethal attacks by chimpanzees on gorillas observed
#22Meta: Any HN threads where 90% of the comments are "jokes" should just be deleted.
no... thanks for trying to censor everything though... you sound like Mods on a bad day.
Re: First lethal attacks by chimpanzees on gorillas observed
#23Meta: Any HN threads where 90% of the comments are "jokes" should just be deleted.
no... thanks for trying to censor everything though... you sound like Mods on a bad day.
Deleting a thread on a tech forum with no substantive discussion about great ape behavior is not "censorship" or "censoring everything"
Re: First lethal attacks by chimpanzees on gorillas observed
#24Meta: Any HN threads where 90% of the comments are "jokes" should just be deleted.
Agreed. Fun should not be tolerated. This is a serious place for serious discussions and dour faces. I'm frowning as I pound this out on my keyboard.
Re: First lethal attacks by chimpanzees on gorillas observed
#25Time for Manning's to release a Natural Selection in Action series.
A modern day analog of the conquest of Neanderthalia by the strange, physically weaker cousins from down under.
Re: First lethal attacks by chimpanzees on gorillas observed
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
no... thanks for trying to censor everything though... you sound like Mods on a bad day.
Deleting a thread on a tech forum with no substantive discussion about great ape behavior is not "censorship" or "censoring everything"
HN is not strictly a tech form. The goal is what’s interesting, the audience is tech focused but the third ranked link is currently:
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Re: First lethal attacks by chimpanzees on gorillas observed
#27As a child, I would hear news reports talking about guerrilla attacks. It wasn't until I saw a Mad Magazine feature with a title along the lines of "if only the news meant what it sounded like" with a picture of gorillas attacking a city that I realized that they not gorilla attacks (I think it was a while longer still before I knew the word was guerrilla—I was a kid, OK?). This is the first sign that maybe the world could be as interesting as I imagined.
Re: First lethal attacks by chimpanzees on gorillas observed
#28> "Whether this behavior is due to competition for food or to the decline of the rainforest's productivity caused by climate change will now be investigated in more detail." Declaring the cause must be food competition or climate change seems a bit hasty? These are complex social animals. Given this is the only attack ever observed, it seems possible to me that there are a myriad of plausible one-off explanations. Pe…
That phrasing struck me as well. It's a classic false-dichotomy. It's funny to me to see it so prominent in what appears to be a fairly professional site.
Re: First lethal attacks by chimpanzees on gorillas observed
#29> "Whether this behavior is due to competition for food or to the decline of the rainforest's productivity caused by climate change will now be investigated in more detail." Declaring the cause must be food competition or climate change seems a bit hasty? These are complex social animals. Given this is the only attack ever observed, it seems possible to me that there are a myriad of plausible one-off explanations. Pe…
> Perhaps a particular chimp or gorilla was having a really bad day and just went out looking for a fight.
This doesn't necessarily contradict the food competition or climate change hypothesis. To the individual ape it might seem that he's just having a bad day, but then you could look at weather/food data and compare it to incidence of violence and see a causal relation. It would actually be surprising if those things didn't affect ape behavior.
Re: First lethal attacks by chimpanzees on gorillas observed
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Deleting a thread on a tech forum with no substantive discussion about great ape behavior is not "censorship" or "censoring everything"
HN is not strictly a tech form. The goal is what’s interesting, the audience is tech focused but the third ranked link is currently: Lost world revealed by human, Neanderthal relics washed up on North Sea beaches (sciencemag.org) 226 points by chippy 8 hours ago 81 comments Yesterday’s top 10 had: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2021-07-20 Restaurant workers quit at record rate (npr.org) 434 points by boulos 1…
I think what the commenter was referring to was with type of discussion than the nature of the post.