A female chimpanzee eating termites using a tool alongside her infant at Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania Credit: Alejandra Pascual-Garrido ...

Chimpanzees select materials for tools based on flexibility, revealing early engineering instincts linked to human tool ...

Termites are a good source of energy, fat, vitamins, minerals, and protein for chimpanzees. To eat termites, chimpanzees need to use relatively thin probes to fish the termites out of the mounds ...

These are for editorial purposes relating to this press release ONLY and MUST be credited. They MUST NOT be sold on to third parties.

Since Jane Goodall's groundbreaking discovery in 1960 that chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania use tools to fish termites out of their mounds, further research has found that ...

Termites are a good source of energy, fat, vitamins, minerals and protein for chimpanzees. To eat the insects, chimpanzees need to use relatively thin probes to fish the termites out of the mounds ...

Chimpanzees in Gombe National Park use engineering to create flexible tools for termite fishing, raising questions about learning and transmission.

Termites are a good source of energy, fat, vitamins, minerals and protein for chimpanzees. To eat the insects, chimpanzees need to use relatively thin probes to fish the termites out of the mounds ...

are also favored by termite fishing chimpanzee communities living up to 5,000 kilometers ... selection of materials for making other foraging tools, such as those used for eating ants or harvesting ...