Researchers suspect that chimpanzees in West Africa believe in some kind of god. The proof of this was the video, which recorded the strange behavior of primates. There is an assumption that the video recorded the moment of a certain ritual, which may be religious.
Anthropoid apes hit one specific tree with stones, and then push these stones into the cracks, which ends with the "construction" of a large stone heap. It is important to note that this animal activity does not carry any functional activity. Therefore, the researchers considered that the monkeys perform some kind of primitive ritual, which may well turn out to be religious.
Scientists managed to record this incomprehensible activity of animals thanks to video cameras installed in the jungle. The folding of stones, according to researchers, resembles the ritual construction of pyramids, the construction of which has also been carried out by humanity for thousands of years.
For those who don't know, let's say that chimpanzees and some other species of primates have long been using stones, sticks and other improvised means as tools, as primitive people did. For example, monkeys break nuts with stones to extract nutritious parts from them. However, in this case, the stones are definitely not used for practical purposes.
For a person, the piling of stones and the folding of pyramids from them at different times and in different cultures had a certain meaning: from the shelter of graves to the construction of religious buildings (temples). In early human history, stones are associated with many religious traditions and rituals. It is possible that the chimpanzees in the video have a similar instinct.