Nature & Environment
Monkeys invent new "fishing technique"
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T.K. RandallMarch 11, 2011 ·
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Image Credit: CC 3.0 Zoo Zagreb
Capuchin monkeys have come up with their own tool-conserving method to fish for termites.
The technique has never been documented before, not even as a human technique. Having observed the monkeys using it researchers found that the method was indeed far more effective than anything anyone had previously come up with.
The technique, reported in the latest Royal Society Biology Letters, has never been documented before for primates, including humans. In fact, people who recently tried out the new five-step termite fishing method found that it worked better than anything else at retrieving the nutritious, yet pesky, insects, which some human cultures eat too.
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