Episode 151 – More Primate Lessons

The article discussed in this week’s podcast was published in the Spring 2011 edition of Yes! magazine.

And as so often happens to me when I’m attuned to studies that challenge established beliefs about what animals can and cannot do, shortly after I recorded this I came across two news items about tool use in stingrays and tusk fish. It’s hard to believe that at one time people actually believed that only humans were capable of using tools.

Does that make us more like animals or animals more like us? 🙂