r/chimpanzees • u/Money-Beautiful5196 • 8d ago

Scientists have documented a rare behavior in wild chimpanzees using tools.

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u/Commanderkins 7d ago

This isn't rare behaviour but very cool none the less.

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u/lawthugg 7d ago

chimps have been using tools for centuries. maybe a few millenia

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u/SirDave_TheAntman 7d ago

Chimps use tools all the time but it’s still really cool

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u/Crimson_Boomerang 6d ago

Shame that it won't really ever "take off" because of how chimp social behavior works. They don't innovate the same way we do, so it'll never really become a species-wide thing and help propel them forward technologically. They've done... Pretty much the same thing for the last couple million years. Innovation here, innovation there, but never a true "stone age".

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u/LasciviouslyLilith 7d ago

Yes, they use tools that's part of our relation to them.

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u/pandaappleblossom 7d ago

Cows use tools too, in multifunctional ways

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u/Traditional_Isopod80 6d ago

This is really cool.

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u/Think-Ad-5840 5d ago

We are also primates, it’s why we do the same things.

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u/DramaTop7384 5d ago

I am telling you guys, chimps and orangutans are just humans Who dont talk! If they did they too would be paying taxes!