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Chimp Cracks Nut With Rock, curated by Sean Steadman, Kennington Residency, London Cascading Relevant Information, Liverpool Shell Head, Light Eye Mind, London Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2015, Primary, Nottingham and ICA, London 2014 Reely and Truly Film Club, Crunch Studios, London Unit, CGP London / Dilston Grove, London
Not exact matches
Some
chimps use rocks to
crack nuts, others fish for termites with blades of grass and a gorilla has been seen gauging the depth of water with the equivalent of a dipstick, but no animal wields tools with quite the alacrity of the New Caledonian crow.
Chimps have never been known to flake rocks intentionally to fashion tools, but Mercader believes that way back during a «chimpanzee Stone Age,» they did
crack nuts with the stones found close to the Noulo site.
Mercader and Boesch decided to track the
chimp nut -
cracking habit back in time by digging into the sandy, muddy rain forest soil nearby for evidence of older tools.
What makes this scene so interesting is not just that
chimps are smart enough to figure out how to
crack hard - shelled
nuts, but that their method of doing so is specific to West Africa.
IF YOU»RE impressed that
chimps can use tools to hunt or
crack nuts, wait till you hear what they do when foraging for honey.
Plus, the researchers tested the stones for food residue, including the five
nuts chimps are known to
crack and eat as well as 24 varieties of
nuts and other starches that humans exploit in the region.
The antiquity of the stones means that chimpanzees have been
cracking nuts since long before human farmers reached the region — one explanation for the ability of modern
chimps to use hammer stones and anvils to open food.
In each group, they recorded what types of hammers
chimps used to
crack nuts, how many times they hit each
nut, and how many
nuts they ate per minute.