Most folks wouldn’t be thrilled at having a noisy drone fly over their home. It seems our closest living relatives feel the same way.
Just ask Tushi, a clever chimpanzee at a Netherlands zoo who has the Internet in stitches after she was captured on video using a branch to take out a drone that got too close for comfort.
After she succeeds, swatting the $2,000 device to the ground, the curious chimp jumps on it and pulls off some propellers before losing interest and wandering off.
“We were flabbergasted,” says zoo spokesman Bas Lukkenaar. “It shows, once again, just what intelligent animals they are.”
The drone, which was capturing footage for a television series, aroused immediate interest when it flew over the chimpanzee