Chimps have "replayed" an ancient fable, a team says in Plos One journal.
In Aesop's 2,000-year-old tale, a crow uses stones to raise the water level in a pitcher to reach the liquid so as to quench its thirst.
However, the chimps used two distinct methods...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13560247
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Intriguing. Twycross Zoo has lots of chimps but you have only to look at the people of Nuneaton to see that intelligence is not infectious.
I'll see if I can find a link to the crows in Japan that crack nuts by dropping them in the road for passing cars to roll over.
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