THE GUARDIAN , LONDON
Friday, Apr 16, 2004,Page 7
Chimpanzees have demonstrated yet another close similarity to their human cousins. Young female chimps learn skills earlier, spend more time studying and tend to do better than young male chimpanzees -- at least when it comes to catching termites.
US scientists spent four years at Gombe in Tanzania watching chimp families make flexible tools out of leaves and stems, insert them into termite mounds and then fish out the creatures to eat.
"We found there are distinct, sex-based differences akin to those found in human children, in the way in which young chimpanzees develop their termite fishing skills," they report in Nature yesterday.
Human girls notoriously outperform boys at school -- for a while at least.
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