For the first time, a wild gorilla is seen using a tool to eat food
Presented by
Matt Walker
It’s a scene that would grace the opening of any Planet of the Apes movie. But rather than being fiction, this is fact, and one that is new to science. For the first time, a gorilla in the wild has been seen using a tool to acquire and eat food.
The young female gorilla watched another older male attempt to collect ants from a hole in the ground, only to see the ants bite his arm, scaring him away. The female gorilla tried to put her own arm in the hole, and she too was bitten. Continue reading
