Nut Cracking Chimps

Researchers have found evidence that chimpanzees from West Africa were cracking nuts with stone tools before the advent of agriculture, thousands of years ago. The result suggests chimpanzees developed this behaviour on their own, or even that stone tool use was a trait inherited from our common ancestor. Julio Mercader, Christophe Boesch and colleagues found the stones at the Noulo site in Côte d'Ivoire, the only known prehistoric chimpanzee settlement.

Mercader, Julio, Huw Barton, Jason Gillespie, Jack Harris, Steven Kuhn, Robert Tyler, and Christophe Boesch
4300-year-old chimpanzee sites and the origins of percussive stone technology.
PNAS, February 2007

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[bonangusacdc]

Is it just me or do others find it far more wonderful, beautiful and magnificent to know that we are part of the incredible evolutionary tree on which we share a common ancestor with these great creatures than to believe the insulting lie that we are made out of dirt off the ground or a clot of blood?

[Thrashaero]

yeah lets see you crack a nut the same way he's doing it. you'd bust your fingers and cry like a bitch.

[womblewandering]

Shes training her son to become a street fighter

[Crazyman1212]

@thevickster881 yes it was a joke idiot.

[lilmonkeyjj]

those chimps can crack nuts e.e better than me

[thevickster881]

@Crazyman1212 if that comment about a factory of monkeys was a joke then its a poor one.If not, then you clearly have some messed up views on animal welfare.

[Crazyman1212]

i want a factory of monkeys and all they do all day is crush nuts on an assembly line. i'll make them wear people cloths.

[Omega3chimp]

if there was one to give some.

[websnarf]

Give them some to try. Who knows. Its seems chimps are really good problem solvers.

[Omega3chimp]

Chimps cant crack walnuts thou.

[Robtehman]

It's not as easy as it looks. Believe me, I have done it before.

[7777dmith7777]

Obama crack nut