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Chimpanzees act as 'engineers', choosing materials to make tools

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'Researchers have discovered that chimpanzees living in Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania employ a degree of engineering when making their tools, deliberately choosing plants that provide materials that produce more flexible tools for termite fishing.'

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I thought this would be more relatable, like, "chimpanzee engineers found pretending to managers about estimates, chimpanzee managers found pretending to listen".

“Chimpanzee closes Jira ticket, with acceptance criteria met but product not functional.”

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Yes but they make a lot of fuzzy decisions, so they are better compared with e.g. alchemists or deep learning researchers.

The chimps or the other living beings involved in the study?

Co-stochastic co-parrots is where it's at.

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