Question

What key feature of chimpanzee tool use have anthropologists identified?

A. Although chimpanzees are intelligent, their ability to use tools is so advanced that it is assumed that a large part of that ability is genetic.

B. Even though chimpanzees independently learn to use tools across Africa, the exact kind of tool and its use almost never varies from place to place; all chimpanzee groups have the same three or four tools.

C. Chimpanzees, being very intelligent, learn to modify and use tools in the wild, but active teaching of the young by adults seems to be only found in humans; chimpanzees do not do this.

D. Chimpanzees are highly intelligent; mothers have been seen teaching their young to use tools; which tools are used and for what purposes varies from location to location.

Answer 1

I think d option would suit best because mother chimpanzee teach their offspring about using tools like in using termites probes and also their tools vary from location to location because each location have its own complexity . Complexity varies the tool use so b option is incorrect.

C is incorrect because active teaching have been found in chimpanzees and also they can’t modify tools .

A is incorrect because they are using the tool in not much advanced manner as compared to their primates