• Question: what is the most human-like act an ape has done?

    Asked by to Lewis on 21 Mar 2014. This question was also asked by .
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      Lewis Dean answered on 21 Mar 2014:

      I think that the most human-like act that I have ever seen is a chimpanzee pointing. This may not sound that amazing, but chimpanzees don’t point in the wild (they do beg from others sometimes, which looks a little bit pointy but is different). The chimp that I saw was in a zoo, so it must have learned how to point from the humans around it.

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