It seems that chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) in the rainforest of the north of the Democratic Republic of Congo have risen markedly up the evolutionary ladder. Of course, they did not catch up with us - people - relatives close to them, standing at the very top. But they became smarter than their other brothers so much that they created their own civilization. This was reported by German and Polish scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and the University of Warsaw in the journal Folia Primatologica, finding, as they put it, evidence of a rich material culture in Congolese - Schweinfurt - chimpanzees settled in the Bili Uere nature reserve.
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A civilized chimpanzee was featured on the cover of a magazine in which scientists published an article about him.
“The research has been going on for almost 12 years,” explained Thurston C. Hicks, head of the research team. “During this time, we have found and described numerous tools made by monkeys for extraction and preparation of food.
Civilized chimpanzees have their own instrument for each “product”. For example, in order to get and collect ants of different species, they make sticks of different lengths and thicknesses. Chimpanzees are removed from the nests of edible bees with special strong twigs. They grind snails, turtles and pieces of termite mounds - grind them with special hard "graters". Monkeys extract food from the ground with digging sticks. Almost like primitive people.
Tools made by chimpanzees: Nearby is Thurston Hicks, the scientist who found and picked them up.
Against the background of current discoveries, the film "Planet of the Apes", in which the primates evolved so that they became completely humanoid and began to speak, does not look so fantastic anymore. Moreover, all the grounds have recently appeared to assert that monkeys could indeed speak.
Chatting with monkeys about this and that is an old dream of scientists.
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