Tuesday, September 01, 2009

Monkeys Are Gadget Junkies, Too

From the archives, this interesting science article from last January in Wired.

Wired Science News for Your Neurons: Monkeys Are Gadget Junkies, Too.

It talks about how capuchin monkeys put nuts on boulders and smash them open with stones. The important observation was that they did not just merely use a stone but they selected the best one for the job at hand.

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