So much taxpayer money wasted, so little time. In light of Obama’s GSA scandal, it’s time to show some other things that Obama regime has wasted your tax dollars on. How about $592,527 wasted to study why chimpanzees throw poop at each and people walking past them. Yes, seriously, this is really what Obama’s National Institutes of Health did with your money. Tom Coburn’s Wastebook lists 100 outrageous ways the government has wasted your tax dollars. This chimp poop study came in at #91.
Chimpanzees will often throw food or feces at passersby. Taxpayers have funded a study to
figure out the origins of this odd behavior.
William Hopkins, at Agnes Scott College, and researchers at the Yerkes National Primate
Research Center (associated with Emory University) used a portion of the $600,000 from the
National Institutes of Health in 2011 to assist their study of throwing behavior in chimpanzees
and its neurological origins.
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Chimpanzees are one of very few organisms that can throw
objects, which zoo visitors can often observe. For example, one of the investigators‘ research
papers says, ―Some of the chimpanzees will pile faeces or wet chow in their cage and wait for
visitors to pass by before throwing this at them
Since there’s 100 in this study alone, I should have plenty to post in the just under 200 days before the election.