Termite-fishing chimpanzees provide clues to the evolution of technology
Wednesday, August 19, 2020 - 13:30
in Biology & Nature
Unlike chimpanzees in East and West Africa, who use a single tool to extract termites, chimpanzees in Central Africa's Congo Basin use tool sets -- puncturing sticks or perforating twigs plus fishing probes -- to harvest the insects from underground nests or towering earthen mounds scattered across lowland forests.