Gorilla master stone oil shock to the scientific community for instinct?

Gorilla, Bello use "hammer and anvil" skills smash Palm fruit

Academia has generally considered that the deliberate use of stones and stick to complete a specific task behavior is limited to the human and chimpanzee

Recently, in Africa, tropical rain forest reserve, one of only two and a half of chimps use stone banging on another piece of stone from the Palm fruit extract of palm oil. This action makes scientists dumbfounded, they have to ask: what can the Gorilla, the evolution of the chapter if you want to overwrite?

Gorilla with complex tools

In the past, the academic community generally felt that the deliberate use of stones and stick to complete a specific task behavior is limited to humans and chimpanzees. However, in Goma, Congo (Kinshasa) city of gorilla conservation area, caregiver witnessed the Gorilla, Bello use "hammer and anvil" smashed Palm fruit of skills. This is a recognized the most complex tool tips.

"Dianne · tannerella gorillas International Foundation", Member of the Primate zoologists Patrick · Melman, this discovery showed that the use of complex tools may not be a human and a chimpanzee in the evolutionary process of unique characteristics that may appear in the evolutionary chain earlier stage, man and apes common ancestor has mastered.

Smash Palm fruit out of instinct

The only female gorillas living in the reserve has been a year. When poachers catch it tried to sell, but were found, then was sent to Goma reserve. Because it's in Beloit Bello discovered, so reserve a custodian to Beloit Bello as it's name.

Melman said, he believed, Beloit Bello start at Palm fruit out of instinct, not because of human coexistence.

Zoologists Alesia-Lili Zeng and captive Gorilla with up to 10 years, she has seen the performance of Beloit Bello, said that Gorilla skills mostly by imitation, but there is no teacher, Bello, is living in protected areas. "Deuter Bello very proficient at nuts. Most of the chimpanzees may take many years to achieve similar proficiency, "Lili on the phone told the associated press.