![]() ![]() Almost 60 years after her discovery in Gombe, we know a lot more not only about the different tools that chimps use, but also about other animals that share this ability: Apes, monkeys, dolphins, and even birds. There is no doubt we are the most technological species on Earth, but as Goodall showed, we aren’t the only ones using tools. Tools are around us every day, all day, and we use them to eat, work, play, clean the house or ourselves – to do almost anything. That was the first scientific documentation of animals using tools in nature – something formerly considered, as Goodall said, to be done exclusively by humans. ![]() The chimpanzee then brought the blade to its mouth and picked the termites off with its lips.Ī Jane Goodall video describing the discovery of tool usage: The chimp she watched took a long blade of grass, put it into a termite nest and pulled it out, now covered with angry insects that bit the “invader” and held onto it. It was in the Gombe National Park in Tanzania in the early 1960s. This is how Jane Goodall, the renowned chimpanzee researcher, described in a video produced by the institute that bears her name her thoughts after first seeing a chimpanzee use tools. Humans, and only humans, used and made tools, we were defined as ‘man the toolmaker.’ And so now we have to redefine man, redefine tools, or accept the chimpanzees as human.” "That was what was supposed to make us most unique at the time. ![]()
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