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Wild gorillas seen to use tools
What's fascinating is the similarity between what these creatures have done and what we do
Thomas Breuer
Gorillas have been seen for the first time using simple tools to perform tasks in the wild, researchers say.
Scientists observed gorillas in a remote Congolese forest using sticks to test the depth of muddy water and to cross swampy areas.
Wild chimps and orangutans also use tools, suggesting that the origins of tool use may predate the evolutionary split between apes and humans.
Gorillas are endangered, with some populations numbered in the hundreds.
'Valuable insights'
"We've been observing gorillas for 10 years here, and we have two cases of them using detached objects as tools," said Thomas Breuer, from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), who heads the study team in Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park in the Republic of Congo.
"In the first case, we had a female crossing a pool; and this female has crossed this pool by using a detached stick and testing the water depth, and trying to use it as a walking stick," he told the BBC.
The second case saw another female gorilla pick up the trunk of a dead shrub and use it to lean on while dredging for food in a swamp.
She then placed the trunk down on the swampy ground and used it as a bridge.
"What's fascinating about these observations is the similarity between what these creatures have done, and what we do in the context of crossing a pond," observed Dr Breuer.
"The most astonishing thing is that we have observed them using tools not for obtaining food, but for postural support."
In the family
This discovery makes the gorilla the last of the great apes to be documented using tools in the wild.
Chimpanzees use stone tools to process food, and their close relatives bonobos will use the mashed ends of sticks to soak up liquids.
Orangutans - the only Asian great ape - use branches to forage for food, and leaves to modify their calls.
Though some monkeys and birds also use tools, Thomas Breuer believes that the great apes are special.
"We have now seen tool use in all the great apes in the wild," he said.
"That now makes us think that it might be the case that tool use has been an ancient trait of all great apes before the human lineage split away."
Current scientific orthodoxy holds that the separation between the chimpanzee and human lines came about six million years ago.
Research has shown that in captivity, apes can learn a range of skills including number and character recognition.
They can also learn tool use and transmit their acquired skills to other members of their social group.
The Congo team, drawn from the WCS and the Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, believes that the tool traits they have observed in the wild may also be shared and learned across gorilla social groups.
They publish their findings in the online journal Public Library of Science Biology.
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Bruciarsi wrote:Gotta wonder how much they think up and how much they have observed us.
CyberTooth wrote:Bruciarsi wrote:Gotta wonder how much they think up and how much they have observed us.
How much do we think up and how much do we imitate both from nature and our fellow man?
DeathBlast wrote:I got 4 words for you "planet of the apes" and this will be the downfall of man.
Unchrasimatic wrote:DeathBlast wrote:I got 4 words for you "planet of the apes" and this will be the downfall of man.
Eh, I don't buy into ideas of something overthrowing humanity. Super intelligent computers? Well its your own fault for creating one with the motive and capability to kill you. Zombie apocalipse? they walk so slow how do they ever get to infect anyone? Surely humanity would wipe them out if they got too close to a technology level that could threaten us.
Caelus wrote:Unchrasimatic wrote:DeathBlast wrote:I got 4 words for you "planet of the apes" and this will be the downfall of man.
Eh, I don't buy into ideas of something overthrowing humanity. Super intelligent computers? Well its your own fault for creating one with the motive and capability to kill you. Zombie apocalipse? they walk so slow how do they ever get to infect anyone? Surely humanity would wipe them out if they got too close to a technology level that could threaten us.
Not if they develop proprimate lobbyists before they reach that point. Mire us down in ethics and bureacracy while they explore the virtues of bronze.
Unchrasimatic wrote:DeathBlast wrote:I got 4 words for you "planet of the apes" and this will be the downfall of man.
Eh, I don't buy into ideas of something overthrowing humanity. Super intelligent computers? Well its your own fault for creating one with the motive and capability to kill you. Zombie apocalipse? they walk so slow how do they ever get to infect anyone? Surely humanity would wipe them out if they got too close to a technology level that could threaten us.
vulgar_wraith wrote:Hey I found video there evolving faster than we thought>there might not be time to stop them.
http://www.sighost.com/user/vulgar_wrai ... th_gun.gif
Eh, I don't buy into ideas of something overthrowing humanity. Super intelligent computers? Well its your own fault for creating one with the motive and capability to kill you. Zombie apocalipse? they walk so slow how do they ever get to infect anyone? Surely humanity would wipe them out if they got too close to a technology level that could threaten us.
Grendel wrote:it's not just monkeys either, I think there's a type of parrot they seen that uses sticks to fish for grubs tooEh, I don't buy into ideas of something overthrowing humanity. Super intelligent computers? Well its your own fault for creating one with the motive and capability to kill you. Zombie apocalipse? they walk so slow how do they ever get to infect anyone? Surely humanity would wipe them out if they got too close to a technology level that could threaten us.
yeah, because humans are leet
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