APE GENiUS (DVD5, 2008)

WHAT SEPARATES APES FROM HUMANS?

We found something quite surprising, the human children were predisposed to copying, even when they were doing something that was really rather silly.

 That human children expect to be taught is a vital difference.

Never before has any non-human species been known to routinely make and use deadly weapons. So what does spear-hunting reveal about how chimpanzees think? Dr Savage-Rumbaugh, of the Great Ape Trust, in Des Moines, Iowa, adds: 

‘Kanzi makes fire because he wants to. He used to watch the film Quest For Fire when he was very young which was about early man struggling to control fire. He watched it spellbound over and over hundreds of times. He was fascinated by the camp fires his keepers made to cook food.

At the age of five, he was making small piles of bone dry sticks.

He was taught to use matches, a skill he picked up quickly.

There’s something eerie about watching Kanzi strike a match.

The way he holds the flame - taking care not to burn himself - is remarkably human.

The tool-making was an exercise devised by Eviatar Nevo, of the University of Haifa.

In conversation with the researchers Kanzi points to symbols, known as lexigrams, on the keyboards representing different words. He has learned to ‘say’ around 500 words through the keyboard, and understands 3,000 spoken words.

Kanzi had trouble learning how to properly use a lighter, but he knows now!

The owner better not let the chimp watch ‘Planet of the Apes’!

And this would be good to gift someone special.

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