New evidence of culture in wild chimpanzees

Friday, October 23, 2009 - 08:07 in Biology & Nature

A new study of chimpanzees living in the wild adds to evidence that our closest primate relatives have cultural differences, too. The study, reported online on October 22nd in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, shows that neighbouring chimpanzee populations in Uganda use different tools to solve a novel problem: extracting honey trapped within a fallen log...

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