Senegal's chimpanzees pass on tool skills through fruit sharing
At Dindefelo Biological Station in south-eastern Senegal, chimpanzees trade tools as they share fruit. Researchers from the Jane Goodall Institute Spain and the University of Barcelona watched a troop of savanna chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes verus, at the site. When the animals hand tools and fruit to each other, the habit of using tools spreads through the group. Social learning drives the pattern, and it can keep cultural traditions alive among the chimpanzees.
The observations give conservationists at Dindefelo a clearer view of how wild apes transmit survival skills, information that supports protection of endangered chimpanzee populations.
Source: Frontiers | Savanna chimpanzee tool and fruit transfers facilitate the transmission of technological behaviours at Dindefelo, Senegal (frontiersin.org).
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