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Chimpfluencers Stick Grass in Their Ears and Butts in Latest Viral Trend
If chimpanzees had access to TikTok, the platform might soon be flooded with videos of 'chimpfluencers' wearing grass in their ears and butts – the latest trend going around a chimp sanctuary in Africa.
If chimpanzees had access to TikTok, the platform might soon be flooded with videos of 'chimpfluencers' wearing grass in their ears and butts – the latest trend going around a chimp sanctuary in Africa. In August 2023, at the Chimfunshi Wildlife Orphanage Trust sanctuary in Zambia, a trendsetting chimp named Juma was seen sticking a piece of grass into his ear, deep enough to stay there on its own. "Yet, when selection pressures relax (e.g., due to systematic provisioning in captive care), chimpanzees may extend their social learning occasionally to behaviors without direct instrumental utility."
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