WATCH: Chimps wet a line with makeshift fishing rods
Two chimpanzees have proven they are not so different to us at all by using bamboo sticks as makeshift 'fishing rods'.
Scientists discovered the chimps at Bakoun, Guinea wetting a line as part of a thorough academic study titled Pan African Programme: The Cultured Chimpanzee, where data from more than 40 different research sites was collected.
"The tool-use appears quite different from what is known from a nearby long-term chimpanzee site at Bossou, Guinea and also differed from previous reports of rare algae scooping in Congo," Researcher Ammie Kalan said.
"All age and sex classes of Bakoun chimpanzees were seen in the camera trap videos to successfully fish for algae in a river, stream or pond using woody branches or twigs as fishing rods.
“The tools were on average longer and sturdier than the algae fishing tools that are known from Bossou.
“Some Bakoun tools were more than four meters long.”
