Chimp Tool Use in Budongo Forest: The Sonso Community

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Chimpanzee populations throughout Africa differ in tool-using behavior, a likely example of animal culture. We exposed two Ugandan groups at Sonso and Kanyawara to an unfamiliar problem, honey trapped within a fallen log. We found that individuals relied on their cultural knowledge to solve this problem. The video shows how a Budongo chimpanzee produces a leaf-sponge to access the honey.

See  the paper by Gruber et al., 
Current Biology 19(21), published online Oct. 22, 2009: http://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822%2809%2901774-6

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