ScienceHow chimps teach their young to use tools

A new paper in Frontiers in Psychology finds that adult chimpanzees pass on tool-use skills through social learning. Adults model techniques, hand tools to juveniles for imitation, and provide supervised practice; mothers appear to be the main models and teachers.

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