[__ Science __ ] Does New Evidence Show Chimpanzees Are “Engineers”?

[AIG.com]

A new study claims chimpanzees have “folk physics” and use “rudimentary engineering” as they use sticks to pull termites out of mounds.

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[Barbarian]

In the sense that they pass on learned tool-making and using techniques to younger chimps. The interesting thing is that they will make a tool (a termite-gathering stick) before they find a termite nest. So they anticipate using the tool they make, before they have an occasion to use it.