Chimpanzees are species of apes from the genus Pan. The common chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) is from the phylum Chordata and class Mammalia, they are believed to be the closest relatives to humans due to its evolutionary relationships with humans and its common ancestor, there are many similarities that chimps share with humans. Among these similarities is the display of tool-using behaviors in chimps. Nut cracking has been considered as one of the most complex forms (Schrauf et al. 2012). In its most knowledgeable form, a chimpanzee will crack open a nut in other to gain access to the edible and nutritious part by putting or placing the nut on a flat surface and then hitting the nut with a hammer. This act does not only require the use of
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However an earlier experienced based on using but cracking tools would affect some effectiveness of certain chimps on picking the hammer with the right weight to crack open the nuts, in other words if the chimp had, had a previous experience with certain nut cracking tool, it was more effective in picking the right tool with the right weight. Due to this experiment scientist were able to understand the roll weight places in cracking of shells or the use of tools based on weight when chimps were in question. It also answered the question could chimps use previous experience when it came to performing similar tasks. Further studies with wild, skilled and unskilled nut-cracking chimpanzees would help the scientist better determine the role that experience plays in tool …show more content…
However a negative criticism would be that using a hammer would not have been an adequate way to really see if chimps could comprehend weight and understand how to use it. The scientist should have also added other objects with different weights to further stamp in the fact that chimps could really comprehend weight and also the data was not averaged, readers and critics alike would have a hard time interpreting the data which was giving out by the
However an earlier experienced based on using but cracking tools would affect some effectiveness of certain chimps on picking the hammer with the right weight to crack open the nuts, in other words if the chimp had, had a previous experience with certain nut cracking tool, it was more effective in picking the right tool with the right weight. Due to this experiment scientist were able to understand the roll weight places in cracking of shells or the use of tools based on weight when chimps were in question. It also answered the question could chimps use previous experience when it came to performing similar tasks. Further studies with wild, skilled and unskilled nut-cracking chimpanzees would help the scientist better determine the role that experience plays in tool …show more content…
However a negative criticism would be that using a hammer would not have been an adequate way to really see if chimps could comprehend weight and understand how to use it. The scientist should have also added other objects with different weights to further stamp in the fact that chimps could really comprehend weight and also the data was not averaged, readers and critics alike would have a hard time interpreting the data which was giving out by the