Re: What did AAT Supposedly eat?

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In article <3fcr37$q7d@rebecca.albany.edu>, pn8886@csc.albany.edu (Phil
Nicholls) wrote:

:
: Chimpanzees will look for a small branch of particular size, strip the
: leaves off it a particular way, carry it for some distance and use it
: to fish for termits. By any reasonable criteria they have taken a
: natural material and altered it's shape for a particular use. That is
: tool making.
:
Is it taught behaviour; ie, is it cultural? If so, then I think you'd
*have* to say it was tool making. If it was instinctive, then not.
Thoughts?

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