Chimps Build Makeshift Ladder, Break Free from Zoo Enclosure

Tuesday, February 12, 2019

They saw an opportunity and they seized it, set it up, then scaled it. Some enterprising chimpanzees at the Belfast Zoo in Northern Ireland's capital, propped a tree branch against the wall of their enclosure Saturday to make an improvised, yet sturdy, ladder. "Don't escape, you bad little gorilla," a child chimed in as stunned zoo visitors filmed the breakout.

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Chimps are smarter than "Conservatives"!

Never, ever would have guessed that...

#1 | Posted by jpw at 2019-02-12 12:07 PM | Reply | Funny: 4 | Newsworthy 1

'Chimps Build Makeshift Ladder, Break Free From Zoo Enclosure"

Big deal. I remember not too long ago a chimp invaded Iraq based on blatantly false intelligence...

#2 | Posted by NerfHerder at 2019-02-12 12:13 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

Must have been some of IndianaJones' pals.

#3 | Posted by nullifidian at 2019-02-12 12:16 PM | Reply

#3 | POSTED BY NULLIFIDIAN

Nah all my ape acquaintances escaped years ago:

NULLIFIDIAN

Party: None

Ideology: Other

Joined 2004/11/08

#4 | Posted by IndianaJones at 2019-02-12 12:54 PM | Reply | Funny: 4

Nah all my ape acquaintances escaped years ago:

At least Nulli was smart enough to build a ladder and escape his ideological prison...

#5 | Posted by Rightocenter at 2019-02-12 01:15 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"At least Nulli was smart enough to build a ladder and escape his ideological prison..."

I didn't realize you could build a ladder out of plonks.

What's Mexican for plonk? Asking for drug dealers, rapists, and some good people.

#6 | Posted by snoofy at 2019-02-12 01:27 PM | Reply

"At least Nulli was smart enough to build a ladder and escape his ideological prison..."

Nulli then took that ladder, flipped it over and used it to climb down into his new ideological prison on the other side of the wall. How smart was that?

#7 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2019-02-12 01:46 PM | Reply | Funny: 3

Touche, I will leave that one to Nulli.

#8 | Posted by Rightocenter at 2019-02-12 01:54 PM | Reply

-his new ideological prison on the other side of the wall.

I get a heavy dose of leftwing news and opinion from the retort. Unlike the DR Left, I search out contrary opinions, bubble dweller.

#9 | Posted by nullifidian at 2019-02-12 01:56 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"Unlike the DR Left, I search out contrary opinions,"

We know you search them out so you can attack them from the comfort of your new ideological prison.

#10 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2019-02-12 02:01 PM | Reply

Any time I post links to contrary sources, they are immediately slaughtered and unread. All Team Blue reads is HuffnPuff/Vox/Buzzfeed/ThinkProgress/TeenVogue/DailyKos, etc. That's a real ideological prison.

#11 | Posted by nullifidian at 2019-02-12 02:05 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#11 oh please you've slaughtered many a source.

Hypocrite.

#12 | Posted by jpw at 2019-02-12 02:09 PM | Reply

"Any time I post links to contrary sources, they are immediately slaughtered and unread. All Team Blue reads is HuffnPuff/Vox/Buzzfeed/ThinkProgress/TeenVogue/DailyKos, etc. That's a real ideological prison."

Those contrary sources like pjmedia, the Washington Examiner and the Daily Caller are just as much an ideological prison and the fact that you don't recognize that is merely a reflection of how comfortable you feel behind those walls.

#13 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2019-02-12 02:15 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Difference is, I read more leftwing opinion than anything else, thanks to the retort.

#14 | Posted by nullifidian at 2019-02-12 02:20 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

they're reporting on CNN that there's a caravan of chimps heading for the southern border

#15 | Posted by 1947steamer at 2019-02-12 03:44 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

That chimp will probably be thrown in "The Hole" for 30 days and put on bread & water rations only.

#16 | Posted by shane at 2019-02-12 03:58 PM | Reply

At least Nulli was smart enough to build a ladder and escape his ideological prison...

#5 | POSTED BY RIGHTOCENTER

And that's certainly more than we can say for RoC.

#17 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2019-02-12 04:07 PM | Reply | Funny: 2 | Newsworthy 1

Wow. Chimps can do things like this, but Democrats can't figure out that you can't get to Hawaii by train.

#18 | Posted by Spork at 2019-02-12 04:14 PM | Reply | Funny: 2

In some ways, Nulli makes for an interesting case-study. In olden times he was clearly liberal/left leaning. Now, after more than a decade interacting on the DR, he is clearly right wing leaning. No way to deny it based on his long posting history. He may be the only person in DR history to actually change his fundamental political outlook as a result of interacting with other people on the DR over an extended period of time.

#19 | Posted by moder8 at 2019-02-12 04:32 PM | Reply

He may be the only person in DR history to actually change his fundamental political outlook as a result of interacting with other people on the DR over an extended period of time.

I'll let you ponder the cause and effect analysis that caused that result...

☺

#20 | Posted by Rightocenter at 2019-02-12 04:36 PM | Reply

Nulli is so right wing he's going to boycott Gillette when it comes time to select a blade to slice his limp wrists again.

#21 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2019-02-12 04:36 PM | Reply | Funny: 4

"He may be the only person in DR history to actually change his fundamental political outlook as a result of interacting with other people on the DR over an extended period of time."

LOL.
More like, he "interacted" with Andrea, a mattress so much he had a stroke.

#22 | Posted by snoofy at 2019-02-12 05:08 PM | Reply

I've probably moved to the right over the course of the last 15 years here, though probably not enough that the people who contributed to the shift would acknowledge it. FFS I even voted for a Democrat in 2016. Never thought I'd say that.

#23 | Posted by Hagbard_Celine at 2019-02-12 06:06 PM | Reply

I changed. I gave up on the Democrats.

#24 | Posted by DixvilleNotch at 2019-02-12 06:15 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Libya.

What the ---- for?

#25 | Posted by DixvilleNotch at 2019-02-12 06:16 PM | Reply

#24 | Posted by DixvilleNotch

I understand; Progressivism is not for the weak of heart. Best wishes from those of us who choose to keep tilting at windmills.

#26 | Posted by john47 at 2019-02-13 11:04 AM | Reply

At least Nulli was smart enough to build a ladder and escape his ideological prison...

#5 | POSTED BY RIGHTOCENTER

he should have stayed where he was. The one he's in now SUCKS!!!

#27 | Posted by kudzu at 2019-02-13 11:09 AM | Reply

Wow. Chimps can do things like this, but Democrats can't figure out that you can't get to Hawaii by train.

#18 | Posted by Spork

Will will build the Train! We need the biggest and the bestest and the fastest Trains!

Because America!

In fact, we are building that Train right now! In fact, it is already built!

You can't see it? Didn't we tell you it was going to be invisible?

Yeah... It's an invisible Train that we are gonna build, that we already are building, but the Mexicans are gonna pay for it AND build it!

So what is your problem with trains and train security?

Train hater!

MAGA!!

#28 | Posted by donnerboy at 2019-02-13 05:31 PM | Reply | Funny: 1