Eighty percent of a population of Burmese long - tailed macaques on an island in southern Thailand use stone and shell tools to
crack open seafood, and do so using 17 different action patterns, according to a study published May 13, 2015 in the
open - access
journal PLOS ONE by Amanda Tan from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and colleagues, under an 8 year field project led by Michael D Gumert, also from NTU.
After writing this article, I'm finding myself inspired to write at least three things I'm grateful for whenever I
crack my
journal open, so thank you for the inspiration!