Animal innovation

In 1953 a young female Japanese monkey called Imo began washing sweet potatoes in water prior to eating, presumably to remove dirt and sand grains. Soon other monkeys had copied her behavior, and potato-washing gradually spread throughout the entire troop. When, three years after her first invention...

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Main Author: Reader, Simon M.
Other Authors: Simon M. Reader; Kevin N. Laland
Language:Undetermined
English
Published: Oxford,New York Oxford University Press 2003
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Institutions: Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Trà Vinh