cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/54243
Walking through the savanna-woodland landscape of Boé National Park, Guinea-Bissau, you might encounter a tree covered in gnarled scars, with an accumulation of rocks surrounding its base.
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33 Comments
fullsquare@awful.systems · 105 pts · 87d
god forbid a man has hobbies
zakobjoa@lemmy.world · 85 pts · 87d
Just me and the homies meeting up to throw rocks at our rock tree.
Journal: being super judgemental for no reason.
JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social · 4 pts · 87d
Just scientific method at work, methinks.
makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world · 55 pts · 87d
I've done dumber shit with my bros and theoretically we have higher order thinking
youCanCallMeDragon@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 87d
Theoretically
Janx@piefed.social · 47 pts · 87d
Because fuck that specific tree. 🖕
Thassodar@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 87d
Man FUCK that tree! My homie fell off that tree once, hit his head pretty bad, never been the same so... FUCK that tree!
diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 85d
Hoo hoo hoo hAAAA HAA HAA
JoMiran@lemmy.ml · 36 pts · 87d
Sounds suspiciously similar to archery, hatchet throwing, knife throwing, and all other target practice hobbies.
Viceversa@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 87d
But why one specific tree?
clif@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 87d
Because fuck that tree in particular.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 87d
How else are they going to compare shots unless they aim at the same target?
Viceversa@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 87d
You can throw stones several times to any other tree
JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social · 2 pts · 87d
That's what I was thinking. Their forebears settled upon a favorite tree(s), it caught on in popularity, got passed down, and all that. I mean, it's as good a hypothesis as anything else, far as I know.
mech@feddit.org · 25 pts · 87d
They're training
Imperious_melange@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 87d
Contingencyfork@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 87d
'Why do teenagers kick the can down the same lane every year?'
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 87d
Have you ever followed what Muslims do on the Hadj? They throw stones at three pillars representing Satan. Maybe the monkeys have invented religion?
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 85d
Wow, I just posted that, and now I'm going to have to go back and delete my post.
Viceversa@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 87d
Pillars? I thought they throw stones to a giant black cube
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 87d
Nope. That cube is the thing they walk around seven times, but on another day.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 83d
And inside the cube is an altar made from an iron-nickel meteorite.
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 83d
It's not inside, it is inset into a corner on the outside.
hansolo@lemmy.today · 8 pts · 87d
It's pillars. The cube is what they pray towards.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoning_of_the_Devil
Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de · 12 pts · 87d
Because it's what they've always done.
Soulphite@reddthat.com · 6 pts · 87d
The hairless ape is fascinated by things the hairy apes do. Why?
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 85d
I find our cousins entertaining.
Gust@piefed.social · 4 pts · 87d
What a strange thing to do. Completely unrelated, I'm gonna go find some smooth stones to skip on a lake because it looks cool and I like the sound
silly_goose@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 87d
because passing time without a smartphone is just too darn hard.
gnate@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 87d
They're inventing cricket!
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 83d
We'll know for sure when one chimp bites another's face off for being LBW.
Jerb322@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 87d
Does it make a loud noise? They also stomp on some tree trunks to make a loud drumming sound. Or a visual mark for others to see, maybe.Territorial thing.
Brummbaer@pawb.social · 2 pts · 87d
When we discover that this is basically religion, a lot of people will be really confused and in denial.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 85d
quick_snail@feddit.nl · 0 pts · 86d
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