Jane Goodall

Monkey toolmakers make sharp stone flakes and smash some long-held beliefs

Humans, and only humans, were thought to use and make tools, defined as "Man the Tool Maker."

Then one day in October of 1960, Jane Goodall found a chimp squatting on a termite mound. He seemed to be poking pieces of grass into the mound, then raising them to his mouth. Termites bit onto the modified grass stem with their jaws. The chimp had been using the stem as a tool to "fish" for insects!

Tooling is defined as the process of using an object to achieve a mechanical outcome on a target.

Projects On The Go

Monkey Sanctuary HP 1 Conservation in Southern Africa is rapidly becoming unsustainable without the active involvement of the community, especially the younger, more active generation. The Bushbabies Monkey Sanctuary and The Elephant Sanctuary group strongly believe that we have to get the younger members of communities involved to instill a passion for the environment and wildlife in them through education.

Pet Monkeys... Really A Good Idea?

monkey as pet I'll introduce you to Joyce, for example. A young female capuchin, she was rather pampered with child-like paraphernalia; a dress and a small hat around her head. Cute, indeed. She had been with her "foster" family since only two months old, bought straight from a breeder. The couple who owned her did not have children, and so decided to substitute the missing link with a primate, albeit a bit smaller...and with sharper teeth.