Spears

Make A High-Speed Spear Launcher

12:40PM October 27, 2009 | Adam Frucci

Bored? Why not direct your restless energy into building an Atlatl, an ancient spear-throwing device that’ll let you toss a spear far farther than you could before. More »


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Pioneering Orangutan Pries First Hunting Tool Ever Out of Heston’s Cold Dead Hands

4:00PM April 28, 2008 | Gizmodo US Edition

Hide the china, bananas, children—whatever. I guess it doesn’t really matter, because for the first time ever an orangutan was spotted in the wild using a gadget to hunt. In this case the tool was a spear, and the intrepid primate apparently picked up the skill by watching locals fish with spears along the Gohong River in Borneo, on the island of Kaja.

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