How chimps teach their kids tool tricks

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Chimpanzee Mothers Appear to Teach Their Babies How to Use Tools

Chimpanzees may be teaching their children skills once thought uniquely human

Remote cameras catch chimps teaching youngsters how to use tools to hunt

Captured in Senegal, one video appears to show a chimpanzee showing her daughter how to use a stick to extract ants from a nest.

How chimps teach their kids tool tricks

Adults first demonstrate tool use, then hand over the implements to their infants, who copy the behavior.

Chimpanzees give youngsters the tools to learn tricky techniques

Two-thirds of a century after Jane Goodall observed "David Greybeard" break off a twig to fashion a fishing rod for termites, researchers following in her footsteps have found that adult chimpanzees in Senegal literally hand youngsters the tools for learning.