Re: Study shows apes can plan ahead

Marc Verhaegen wrote:

Since Bonobos have been seen carrying herbivore bone shards around to
use as digging tools, (to extract tubers) its reasonable to assume that
hominds did the same. But since the Bonobo lived in the jungle with very
soft duff, and the Hominids lived on the savannah where the dirt can get
very hard, I'd expect them to prefer longer stout sticks. ...

Apparently the savanna ideas are still very much alive...
I suggest the writer of this nonsense reads
http://allserv.rug.ac.be/~mvaneech/outthere.htm

http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/9403/9403.ch01.html
...
Meanwhile, in the arid region of Tongo (in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo),
chimpanzees carry around with them the water-filled roots of a Clematis plant,
which they use and sometimes share in the style of a water bottle.
...
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