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Tough life: Thailand's macaques hang out on island beaches, cracking open seafood with stones

It took these monkeys just 13 years to learn how to crack nuts

4 September 2017

The long-tailed macaques of Thailand already used stone hammers to split open shellfish, and now they have worked out how to use them to crack open nuts

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