Chimpanzee tool usage: Hammer and anvil

[yungeddakid]

She is hot

[KokoLuvLee831]

I want her to be Lara Croft.

[manwithoutstar]

she is damn hot ... lucky monkeys

[Yvieneify]

I like how she says nuts

[theangrypersian]

This gives me shivers ...

[blullby852]

Thumbs up for baby monkey at 2:03 :D

[whitewolfwithblackSP]

Caesar!!!!!! <3 <3<3

[altoids79762]

i know you all will hate me for saying this but you see how chimps use tools? i just wanna make an island for chimps and and put a crate ful of knifes and other weapons and see if they will turn on each other and see if they become violent.

[jsuttonus]

that one chimp wearing the green vest is pretty hot!

[Kenceo]

Charles darwin was right.

[MadMAn12gauge]

4:00 am i the only one that saw the massive camel toe? :P

[woo216]

@MadMAn12gauge ahahahhahhahahahah lol good observation

[MackerLiverpool]

at 3:16 the rock is numbered, is this from a sanctuary or are they wild but just given help for the cameras? dont get me wrong i totally believe they do this alone but just for the question :)

[tehinfidel]

@MackerLiverpool Nice eye! According to the show's website, these chimps are (probably) at the Kibale Forest National Park in Uganda, so they're probably "relatively" wild, though closely observed, so I'm sure they numbered their anvil rocks to see which individuals/groups use them. There are preserves that are more isolated and controlled (such as Ngamba Island where many injured chimps are taken for rehabilitation, etc.) and others, but I think this numbering is just from regular observers.

[MackerLiverpool]

@tehinfidel oh awesome thanks :) you really seem to know your stuff :)

[Fr0ggeh86]

@MackerLiverpool She says in the clip that biologists have numbered the stones to see which stones the chimps prefer to use.

[nomsdeguerre]

@MackerLiverpool The answer to your question is actually in the video itself in around 1:44, the presenter states that the biologists number the stones to see which ones the chimps like to use. You obviously have a hawk eye... how about some bat ears now ehhhh... :)

[OnlyBeHere4Minutes]

Their not far away from making their own basic tools.

[75egcg]

not long from now, chimpanzees will be able to use their tool using skills and turn them into tool making skills, then they will learn how to better manage large civilisations of like chimps, then they will all collaborate to make technology to send them into colonising other planets and will surpass man, while humans are still going to be worried about whose god is the right one.

[musicplayah]

@75egcg lmao :D

[toulouse666]

Excellent.

But I do have one complaint though, if you had to make the voice-over for this video all over again, I would do it in POST PRODUCTION!!!

Talking in sudo whispers just pisses people off, making us want to scream: SPEAK UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Tryoutz747]

I wonder how often they smash their fingers? More often than man or less often.

[Carryon871]

The chick in this video is mad cute. I wouldnt mind doing some ancient mating ritual with her in the name of science ;)

[northblooduchc]

would love to go on a chimp hunting expedition. I would use a small caliber rifle with a scope.don't blow them apart . justblast them off their feet and feel the thud as they land dead on their back, their families screaming in horror. chimps can't be trusted. time and again you hear of some chimp who's rescued from the wild by a kindly human, only to turn on their saviors in a violent rage. they live in luxury wearing clothes sleeping in beds, eating pizza then bite the hand that feeds

[ARodriguez258]

"The technique is remarkably sophisticated... They hit nuts with rocks..."

Lol.

[ScrapGoldBass]

Those younger chimps sure are cute!

[Dave4A]

Still not that intelligent (i.e. in comparison to humans) if it takes 7 years to learn how to crack a nut.

[TheCanadianArchetype]

@Dave4A yea but it takes some people +10 years to get the hang of basic mathematics, when chimps can be taught the same thing in less than half that time -maximum-

[FormulaOneFan4Eva]

it is actually very intelligent. just because it seems simple to us doesn't mean it's simple in absolute. nature isn't linear, it's exponential. what i mean by this is that the ability to crack a nut in comparison to something that, say, a dog is capable of is probably as big a leap as from cracking the nut to what humans are capable of.

for example, a trained dog is able to sit on command but if a chimp is able to utilise objects to it's advantage, that's a quantum leap in intelligence.

[doghappy101]

ha

i didnt know chimpanzees can be a lefty or righty

[Doomyu]

What if a intelligent human lived with apes for say a generation, and taught them how to make different types of tools. I wonder if they would pass that down to their offspring??

[Ari721]

I remember watching this in my anthropology lecture and I was literally amazed! they're so clever its unreal.

[givebeesachance]

So what? Otters crack open clams with rocks. Congrats chimps. you're as smart as giant sea rats.

[adkinsjr]

@givebeesachance

No one ever said intelligence only evolved once. Chimpanzee tool usage is interesting because they are our closest living relatives. And you'll never see an Otter mimicking human behavior by it's own initiative like this:

watch?v=RmHe6uIr-Yg

Or this:

watch?v=IFACrIx5SZ0

[FormulaOneFan4Eva]

can otters fish termites out of their nests with twigs? i don't think so...

[givebeesachance]

@FormulaOneFan4Eva

If there were termites in the ocean they might.

[Howie262]

lol how do people say we're not related...........

what kids growing up dont do this??

[dudelikechill]

I've also heard that elsewhere in the world, there's chimps that have learned how to use electricity and build the atomic bomb...

[eatcarpet]

Silly chimpanzees... they're just like us.

[Bashnutter]

may be a noob question but... chimps become black as they get older or its only a male female thing?! thanks

[tehinfidel]

@Bashnutter Good question, found a reliable site (with refs) that says:

"The eastern common chimpanzee has longer hair than the other two subspecies and has bronze or coppery facial skin color. The central common chimpanzee has a black pigmentation to the face. The western common chimpanzee has facial skin that is pink in color, but it darkens with age."

[Bashnutter]

@tehinfidel thanks! long life to primates!!!

[iseachaixx]

@tehinfidel Just a quick question: If Chimpanzees are known to be 5-7x stronger than human beings, what other wild animals have the ability to overcome the aggression of the chimps? ( I know that Honey Badgers, the fearest animals, are one of them.)

[Navlek79]

my ex girlfriend is smarter than the chimps here, she's also a biologist but they do look alike. i hope with chimp culture and imitation all the chimps would do ameslan

[FlashVirus]

The new "Life" documentary on Discovery Channel had monkeys doing something similar.

[darkblood626]

@YewHadMeAtHello28 whatch turns out we did come form monkeys by (AronRa)

realy intresting augument for the contrery

[Millenx]

3rd, genetics, which is the science that now detects many disease, blood relatives and even solves cases, supported the fossil record almost completely, and links chimpanzees as a "cousin" through mitochondrial DNA. All living organisms share a LOT of genetic information, implying a common source.

[Millenx]

but mechanisms introduced by mutation are "judged" by natural selection, because natural selection decides what lives on and reproduces an what doesn't in the current environment (environment is always changing

[Millenx]

(Ronmatthews) concept of evolution is what scientists call Lamarckian evolution, which has no evidence to support it. 1st, evolution occurs in populations, not individuals. 2nd, natural selection does not introduce new genotypes, it edits them depending on the phenotypes expressed, so is not that organisms develop x or y mechanisms because it was better,

[equallyeasilyfuqyou]

apes. APES.

[tyran7788]

hey i know that girl. she's bear's wife

[zagros24]

guys why you compare this animal to your selfs? after all we are HUMAN god damn it! Chimps are very Intelligent compare to other animals not Human. 1more thing babe chimps are so cut.

[Areweonfiya]

get an education you moron

[F2DGraphics]

I dont get why people praise Chimpanzee intelligence. Their proberly the 2nd most intelligent things Planet Earth has to offer and yet the margin between Chimpanzee intelligence and Human intelligence is unbelievably huge. So im not impressed. But humans are still not clever enough to learn how to live in Unity. Again, im not impressed.

[JohnEdwardIAF]

It's not really as huge as it appears. We have much more cumulative knowledge than they do, as a result of language and writing. You may be comparing their sticks and stones with the Hubble Telescope. The men living in the stone age had all the same intelligence we did, yet they were playing with sticks and stones too. We were a several notches above the intelligence of a chimp, but the true size of the gap becomes much clearer when we remember the stone age.

[ronmatthews]

@F2DGraphics NEW RESEARCH PROVES THAT AS EARLY AS THE EGYPTIAN EMPIRE THEY HAD A SEWER SYSTEM..RUNNING WATER AND KNOWLEDGE OF MECHANICS SO THATS NOT TRUE

[theshninja]

Atheism is only the absence faith, my friend. It doesn't necessarily have anything to do with theories on the origins of the universe.

That being said, I believe the thought isn't that the universe came from nothing, but rather it began expanding from an incredibly dense and super-hot state.

Not something from nothing, but something from something else.

[crmfghtr]

ok theshninja, but then where di the "something else" come from?

[theshninja]

Why does it have to come from something else? It was always there.

[SniperViper1000]

@theshninja Basically a giant hot sun and when it exploded and a bunch of rocks were formed when flying throw space and when they collided BAM we get planets.

[shadow0466666594]

@SniperViper1000 From where did the 'giant hot sun' come from?

[martincrotty]

they are amazingly intelligent in the ways of surviving.

what do you expect?

they do not need algebra yet. they do not need art yet.

ask yourself ''what is intelligence?'' and you realise how close we are to them.

our ancestral link between chimpanzees are and  where we are, happened about 7 million years.

only when we learned to use tools did we start progressing as a species. that was about 2 million years ago but was also 2 million years of a much more hostile world.

give them 10000 years.

[F2DGraphics]

10,000 years to get to where humans are today? I highly doubt it. For a start humans evolved to what we are today because of a deficiency that happened to us which made us less stronger than other chimps and our jaw muscles significantly weaker. We where at the bottom of the bottom because of this deficiency. In order for us to survive as a species our characteristics evolved to have Brain instead of Braun, which eventually gave us intelligence for communication & great team work skills.

[ronmatthews]

@F2DGraphics DO U KNOW HOW ASININE THAT SOUNDS HAHAHA THE MORE PEOPLE STUDY EVOLUTION THE MORE THEY SEE ITS FULL OF SHIT HAHAHA. FOR INSTANCE SINCE THE DAWN OF MAN THERE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN DISABLED INDIVIDUALS FOR MILLIONS OF YEARS WHY HAVENT THEY EVOLVED WINGS? WHY HAVENT THEIR ARMS GROWN LONGER TO COMPENSATE FOR THEIR UNDER DEVELOPED LEGS? PUH-LEESE

[Areweonfiya]

Now, on to your alleged "knowledge" of evolution.

If you knew SHIT about evolution, you would know that its based on natural selection, the strongest live and the weak die, ie the diabled people. Millions and millions of "disabled people" die untill only the "abled" people survive, and through a genetic mutation that occurs before birth, a new species is born. Monkeys didn't grow WINGS because A: they did not come from the same ancestor and B: they do not require them.

[Exmech2]

Pssst... Great Ape Chromosome #13 fused with Chromosome #2. Thus, we have 46 chromosomes. We can match them both. We know where the fuse site is located. We have the genetics... we win.

lrn2reason

[youcutmelegoff]

why is evolving nonsense but being made by a magic man in the sky reasonable?

[Exmech2]

Read my post again. I'm not a mythologist.

[mrpayne123]

@youvutmelegoff

Ppl have a hard time understanding that science isn't common sense. The world being round & relativity would seem at face value to be magical. But since there is so much apparent evidence pppl have to face it, except for Sherie on the view.

Some can't comprehend billions of years of natural selection w/ sex & mutation. They can't connect the dots because they are used to seeing complexity being designed and have an answer that's reinforced in their mind since awareness.

[HenryDavidT]

Due to indoctrination, many adults think like 4-5 year-olds: they have to have clear-cut answers to the unknowns (bogeyman, fairies, getting presents, etc). They don't want to deal with uncertain/complex situations, so, instead of relying on what D. Dennett called "cranes [earthly & often times unreliable ideas/devices]," these people choose to sooth their "souls" in the beliefs of divine beings & creators of the cosmos lowering "sky hooks" from "heaven" for us earthlings to work with & live by.

[akotlar]

@HenryDavidT

This is true whether they believe in science or God.

[McTaggStar]

I would really like to know more details about the researchers involved in the study that lead to this knowledge, and in what scholarly journal I could find it. I'm a student of biological anthropology and I'm writing a research paper detailing primate behavior & culture xD

[tehinfidel]

Unfortunately, documentaries and other popsci shows tend to be light on citations, but if I'm not mistaken, this behaviour in chimps was first witnessed by Jane Goodall herself. I'm sure countless others have written papers on it in the intervening years, as well.

Where I can, I put links to the corresponding research articles in the video description; for this one, there wasn't an obvious individual study, so a regular journal search will have to suffice.

Good luck on your research.

[AtheistMusic]

Insert mindless comment::

They're so cuuuute^^

xD

[rach1351992]

Hi my name is Rachael Moore and I am doin a study on Chimpanzees and their behaviour......this clip is of amazing use to me and I was wondering if you could do me a huge favor and send it me please so I could use it in my report :)

thank you very much Rachael

xxx

[tehinfidel]

Hi, the clip is from the 3-part BBC show "Cousins", of which I own the DVD. It appears to be available on Amazon; and I think the BBC makes their shows available on iPlayer after they're aired, also. Since you appear to be in the UK, you might be able to contact them directly as well. That's the best I can offer ya.

Good luck on your research.

[rach1351992]

Thank you very much :D

xxx

[graaar]

Good luck with your study! May I recommend "Chimpanzee politics"? it's a very interesting book, perhaps the only textbook I've had that I'd actually choose to read on my own.

[PhilipWitte]

man i'd love to show that host how a monkey "cracks a nut". lol

really though, this videos dope! i wounder what dumb ass creationist think when they see this type of advanced behavior in "simple animals" ?

[triczka]

What a poster boy you are.

[PhilipWitte]

blow me triczka.

If your incapable in creating an intelligible response to my comment, you don't deserve one in return.

[triczka]

Wow, ha ha, the ironies! I don't know if I should laugh or cry.

[ffairlane57]

Send them to college, and they will be more likely to succeed than the average obese, video-game addicted American teenager.

[lillance785]

probley man lol

[Myschly]

How is it not? Things we take for granted are very rare in the animal kingdom.

For example, very few animals understand what rhythm is. When you teach a dog to dance, it's just a trick, that means nothing to it. A parrot can however, find a songs beat on its own and dance to it, for its own enjoyment.

These subtle differences make us so unique.

If you compare the intelligence of pigs & dogs, pigs are much more intelligent. The differences are very small, making primates VERY sophisticated.

[druidwolf11]

that is a step we took 2 million yeasr ago this kind of learing measn they are on a race track to civizalatio like us in 2millino years if they survive

[aliveinsd]

Druid...get a book and learn from it. Chimps (Pan Troglodyte) are not becoming anything. They are a fully evolved species, doing what they have always done. The same for Humans.

Technology is not the determinant of species. And the apes behavior is not 'technology.' Otters use rocks to break open oysters. Ravens bend twigs to fish for insects. No big deal.

[mechagb]

could you elaborate on "fully evolved"...

[aliveinsd]

Yes, I'll try.

Homo Sapiens Sapiens (Humans) are a distinct species from all else. If a gene should mutate, and a new branching off appear in the DNA, then it will become a new species. We be as we be.

Example: A Human baby taken from 100K years ago, and brought forward and raised with modern children, would function equally with its classmates.

This all stems from work that I did while at university. Far too complex to discuss herein. Find a book on Cultural Anthropology.

[HoleDweller]

Our species is only about 100k to 250k years old. This is only a tiny sliver of time in geological and evolutionary terms. Yet in that time, we have distinctive differences among regional groups: hair, eye, and skin color, height, and facial features. These have been brought about by evolution, and would have eventually lead to divergent species (still not impossible) if not for our ability to traverse the globe.

The only way a species would no longer evolve would be to go extinct.

[aliveinsd]

Hole: With all due respect. I believed that you have misinterpreted my comment. All that you state is known. And yes, Humans continue to evolve as Homo Sapiens Sapiens. Never mind. The problem is that one cannot fully explain themselves in this small space. One of my three university degrees is in Cultural Anthropology.

[ctvwr]

Three degrees but can't figure out what is wrong with this sentence: The problem is that one cannot fully explain themselves in this small space.

Odd...

[aliveinsd]

Odd.....

But, just what are you trying to say?

[ctvwr]

A person with three degrees does not make such an incoherent statement. Therefore, pics or it didn't happen.

[aliveinsd]

Yep! When all else fails, attack the person rather than the subject. There is a G.E. requirement that could include a class called "Logic and Modern Rhetoric." Just a suggestion....transmission ended...

[ctvwr]

Screaming ad hominem only works when the attack on the person is meant to prove an unrelated point. My attack is meant to attack YOU. Go back and re-examine that rhetoric textbook.

[JohnEdwardIAF]

Don't believe a word aliveinsd says. She thinks her dog can drive her car. No joke, she said it on another vid. She's obviously a pseudo-intellectual.

[adkinsjr]

I think she is probably one of those lunatics in denial about evolution. I've seen her asinine comments on several similar videos. Her argument is basically that these behaviors are not significant because other animals can use tools. My response is.... duh! Many animals have human-like intelligence. What's interesting about apes, is that this is the state we were once in.

[HoleDweller]

Maybe you should get a book and learn from it...

There is no such thing as a "fully evolved species". Evolution does not stop, ever.

[JediMaster6788]

You are right there. Evolution is always happening and we are always evolving, finding new ways to do things, our bodies are constantly changing from one generation to the next if it does not cope. Evolution is real.

[junkie4vids]

Chimps have an uncanny ability to rip off the limbs of humans and bite off the eyelids and lips of humans also. Simply astonishing.

[ILoveYouToThe9999999]

2: 24 cute.

[ILoveYouToThe9999999]

How did chimpanzees know that there is something eatable inside the hard casing?

[tehinfidel]

All chimps come delivered from the factory with X-ray Vision as standard equipment.

[Leweirdo]

hahaha

[aliveinsd]

Te: Funny comment.

Chimpanzees are being touted by $ driven research and animal rights. They need to push the chimp or lose research and/or donations. It's good that the public isn't quite stupid.

Otters use tools to crack oysters. Crows bend sticks to fish insects. There are dogs that can speak a few words, and walk on two legs, horses paint, etc. etc. Chimps can be at once interesting, disgusting, and dangerous--But hehavior is nothing unique in the animal world.

[eyejab]

amazing stuff

[krokodayl]

check out 3:53 till end... find "something" you see on the most common animal in the desert... its the toe of that animal...

[flandersfails]

those are obviously people in chimp suits!

[celocarvalho7]

Chimps can't communicate like hummans so it makes really hard to develop and pass on a technic that's why i think they haven't evolved much!

[ariues]

yeah. they havnt changed much in millions of years because their environment in the jungle has nt changed.

[gggrzesiek]

i guess it is not like that we are better developed, but we are differently develeped, we are adapted do different conditions, is it possibble that they have stopped evolving and we continued? :) thats my impression

[patnagorb]

i know wot u mean but no thats not possible, all life is evolving all the time, even us now. Its important to remember that evolution itself has no goal, nature doesnt rank a species by criteria such as intelligence, language and dexterity. We have branched off from the same ancestor and they are the same distance down a different evolutionary path than we are

[gggrzesiek]

dude read it once again

i think you didnt know what i'd meant

take care

[aliveinsd]

True, but Darwinian Theory suggests survival of the fittest. That's us.

Humans seem to be in some hyper-evolution. Our canines are barely noticed, few wisdom teeth grow through, our baby-toes and fingers are disappearing, & asst. useless organs too--generally speaking of course. A friend of mine bears a startlying resemblance to a chimp, yet he has a Ivy League Master's Degree. He's no chimp. It's the brain that is key, and not appearance/behavior.

[Myschly]

Well, the ones who truly are the fittest are cockroaches. They're the pinnacle of evolution on earth.

But yeah, humans are simply amazing from an evolutionary standpoint.

[aliveinsd]

Myschly: You forgot about Cher. Cockroaches & Cher will evolve and be with us no doubt forever.

[ffairlane57]

And Michael Jackson's corpse will be eternally preserved but no one will ever know it's exact whereabouts.

[ghidfg]

wow

[alexmagnus1]

The similarity to stone age humans is quite bluffing. Do you have more of those?

As for my comment about teaching, I'll post the source as soon as I find it.

[tehinfidel]

The only other segment on chimps in that documentary is about empathy amongst family; it's not really relevant.

However, there are a few interesting and funny segments from a TV show in Japan with a really bright chimp and his "pet dog". Searching YT for "pankun" or "パン君" will bring up many of them. Some are obviously staged, but there is a lot of mind-blowing learning, empathy and tool usage behaviour displayed.

I'll definitely post more on chimp tool usage if I find anything, though.