Watch an example of chimpanzee ‘culture,’ as one fishes for termites

When Jane Goodall first witnessed chimpanzees using sticks to “fish” for termites, she toppled the notion that only humans use tools. Now, a new study has shown groups of chimps fish using their own cultural techniques, which they pass down to successive generations, New Scientist reports. Researchers used camera traps to monitor the fishing behavior of 10 chimp communities over 8 years. Just as people adapt their tools—chopsticks are used differently across Asia, for example—scientists identified 38 differ