Some chimps use multi-purpose tools to forage honey from hives (Image: clix, stock.xchng)
IF YOU’RE impressed that chimps can use tools to hunt or crack nuts, wait till you hear what they do when foraging for honey. Not only do they construct several different tools for the purpose, but they use them sequentially – an achievement approaching the abilities of early Stone Age humans.
A team led by Christophe Boesch of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, studied chimps living in Loango National Park in Gabon. They found that the chimps built and used five different…
