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Check out our new paper on #drinking #tools in wild #chimpanzees! We looked at the contexts where the Kanyawara chimpanzees use tools to drink in a project started by Charlie MacKenzie as an undergraduate with senior author @zeppypearl.bsky.social, along with @kris-sabbi.bsky.social & many others!

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Wild Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) Use Tools to Access Out of Reach Water The use of tools to drink water is well-documented in wild chimpanzees, but the specific function of this behavior is unclear. Here we use a large data set of drinking behaviors spanning 14 years of .... https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajp.70036