Chimpanzees continue to learn and hone their skills well into adulthood, a capacity that might be essential for the evolution of complex and varied tool use, according to a study published May 7 in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by Mathieu Malherbe of the Institute of Cognitive Sciences, France and colleagues.
Chimps shown to learn and improve tool-using skills even as adults retrieved 7 May 2024 from https://phys.org/news/2024-05-chimps-shown-tool-skills-adults.html
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