Chimps use cleavers and anvils as tools to chop food (BBC)

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By Matt Walker
Editor, Earth News

For the first time, chimpanzees have been seen using tools to chop up and reduce food into smaller bite-sized portions.

Chimps in the Nimba Mountains of Guinea, Africa, use both stone and wooden cleavers, as well as stone anvils, to process Treculia fruits.

The apes are not simply cracking into the Treculia to get to otherwise unobtainable food, say researchers.

Instead, they are actively chopping up the food into more manageable portions.



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more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8427000/8427974.stm

[Orrex]

1. Don't let them catch you posting that collage of the Bush/Chimp comparisons

It's quite unflattering to them.

[BrklynLiberal]

2. Yep. An insult to chimps.

:rofl:

[cliffordu]

3. That's right,

Those chimps will KICK YOUR ASS!!!!!!

:rofl: