Mandrill monkey makes 'pedicuring' tool {video @ link}

[xchrom]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/14227783

A crude "pedicure" carried out by a mandrill at Chester Zoo suggests the monkeys are capable of more advanced tool use than previously thought.

Scientists from Durham University, UK, filmed the mandrill stripping a twig and using the resulting tool to clean under its toenails.

They published the findings in the journal Behavioural Processes.

Mandrills are the fifth species of Old World monkey seen deliberately modifying tools.

[aquart]

1. Yes, but do they have religion?

Religion is accomplished by complex, even contradictory, brain association (the Shepherd is also the Lamb and the Fisher). Can any other animal do that?

[bluedave]

2. yeah

The whiteskinned ape and there are almost 7 billion of them choking the planet.

[aquart]

3. Funny that you think of humans as "whiteskinned."

[bluedave]

4. yea

now tell me I'm prejudiced-political correctness is a disease of politicians

[bluedave]

5. link

http://info.break.com/break/html/sponsors/comic-con-san-diego-2011-nerd-machine/comic-con-san-diego-2011-nerd-machine.html?episode=17

[sofa king]

6. This article has its own theme song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr55GRDYpkg