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Piecing together the history of our knowledge of chimpanzee tool use

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Whiten and McGrew reported in Correspondence1 a fascinating Liberian postage stamp from 1906, suggesting that its image might be the first documentation of digging for termites by a chimpanzee. They identified the stamp as printed in London, but did not know the basis on which the image was composed.

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