Chimps digging wells shows learned behavior that may help amid climate change

There are moments in researchers’ lives when they realize the significance of something they hadn’t paid much thought to in the past. For primatologist Catherine Hobaiter and her team, one such moment came when they watched a subadult female chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) they call Onyofi digging in the mud of her rainforest habitat in … Continue reading Chimps digging wells shows learned behavior that may help amid climate change