Hacker News with Generative AI: Chimpanzees

Stone selection by wild chimpanzees shares patterns with Oldowan hominins (sciencedirect.com)
The use of broad tool repertoires to increase dietary flexibility through extractive foraging behaviors is shared by humans and their closest living relatives (chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes).
Chimpanzees, Archaeology, Tool Use, Animal Behavior, Evolution
36 points by benbreen 85 days ago | 4 comments
Chimpanzees' stone tool choices may mirror ancient human ancestors' techniques (phys.org)
An international team of paleobiologists, anthropologists and behavioral scientists has found that the process used by modern chimps to select tools for cracking nuts may be similar to how ancient human ancestors chose their tools.
Chimpanzees, Archaeology, Primates, Tool Use, Ancient Humans
35 points by pseudolus 88 days ago | 22 comments
Old videos of chimpanzees suggest they are capable of speech (phys.org)
Animal Communication, Chimpanzees, Science
23 points by geox 247 days ago | 4 comments