Inside Animal Minds: The New Science Of Animal Intelligence (2012) - Plot & Excerpts
fashioned and used by a Fongoli chimpanzee. To make the weapon, the chimps sharpen a stick with their teeth and use it to hunt nocturnal bush babies, small primates that sleep by day in tree hollows. (Frans Lanting/National Geographic Stock) Kanzi, a bonobo at the Great Ape Trust in Des Moines, Iowa, proudly holds a photographic display of one successful linguistic task. When asked to make a toy dog bite a toy snake, Kanzi correctly placed the dog’s mouth on the snake. When asked to make the snake bite the dog, he correctly reversed their positions. (Michael Nichols/National Geographic Stock) Previously, humans had been thought to be the only species capable of making and using tools. In 1960, Jane Goodall first observed chimpanzees “termite fishing,” using straws, sticks, and vines to extract termites from termite mounds. As her project supporter Dr. Louis Leakey noted in a telegram, the discovery urged the scientific world to “… redefine tool, redefine man, or accept chimpanzees as humans.”
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