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Originally Posted by citac
Especially since I just finished viewing a program on Animal Planet showing Japanese macacque troops spending winter months in hot springs, and others scouring beaches for shells and other sea food. How did this get started? According to the researchers who discovered this some 60 years ago, it was due to the curiosity of leading females, who then taught all other macacques to do the same. Younger macacques are now learning how to dive and take advantage of food found at the bottom of the springs. Once they grow up, they will teach this behaviour to their offspring. As the narrator said, this is evolution happening right before our eyes.
Plus, the saying "Curiosity killed a cat" says it all, doesn't it?
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Someone should try teaching a young female macacque to use a tablet. Then she should teach another macacque and so on and so on...