This video grab image released by Kyoto University Primate Research Institute shows Thailand's long tailed macaque (L) flossing her teeth in front of her baby. KUPRI's Professor Nobuo Masataka found that the frequency of teeth-cleaning roughly doubled and became more elaborate when the infant monkeys were watching, suggesting the females were deliberately teaching their young how to floss. (AFP/KUPRI-HO)
March 12, 2009
Next: monkeys learn to fire machine guns!!
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I saw that this morning on the news.
This really throws another wrench into the 'intelligent design' peoples program, 'cause according to them only humans can use tools so it's not possible for us to be related to monkeys(ie. evolution).
Wait, I thought macaque went to Virginia? See, now I'm all confused.
Feh. Call me when they can demolish buildings with dynamite.
Lex: that may not be too far-fetched
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101626066&ft=1&f=1001
ran: see, that's why I lurvs the Internet. And if that chimp keeps practicing, his aim is only gonna get better.
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