From Nick Sibbett
Jane Goodall’s belief that she was the first person to see a non-human use a tool is not correct (4 June, p 47). Fred Merfield describes in Gorillas were my Neighbours, the 1956 book he co-wrote with Harry Miller (Longman, Green), how in the 1920s he watched chimpanzees use a stick to poke into a bees’ nest and withdraw it coated in honey.
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, UK
