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November 4, 2016

Strange But True!

Q. If “humans aren't the only brainiacs,” as Discover magazine put it, what species in the wild kingdom might fit the bill?

A. A smart start would be those clever chimps that stack boxes high enough to reach a dangling bunch of bananas, says Discover's Kristin Ohlson. A recent study by Harvard researchers Alexandra Rosati and Felix Warneken suggests that chimps also possess some basic cognitive skills for cooking. The researchers gave them two choices: they could place raw food slices either in a device that would return them uncooked or in another that would cook them. The chimps clearly favored the cooked food and even moved raw slices from the one device over to the “oven.”


 
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