Tricking a baboon into revealing a water source - GIF

[ToolTalkBot]

Tricking a baboon into revealing a water source.




Previously:

Monkey mechanic - GIF
Monkey teaches human to use tool - GIF
Escaped Chimpanzee grounds himself on power lines - GIF

[nova_robotics]

Seems like they could have skipped step 1 and just put out salt.

Neat trick for catching baboons though. I heard the same thing will work on raccoons.

[albertq]

Those Kalahari Bushmen are the best trackers with amazing stamina. They will track an animal for days if needs be.

The San Bushmen of southern Africa are an ancient people whose imprint can be traced back to about 45,000 years, in fact the oldest gene pattern amongst modern humans is that of the Khoe-San, dating back to about 80,000 years ago, thus we are all distant descendants of the San.