A video of the orangutan making the tool and using it to retrieve the bottle has been watched millions of times on TikTok A clever orangutan has become a TikTok sensation after a video of its ...

Captive orangutans can use stone tools without minimal direction from humans, researchers reported today. Besides an affirmation of orangutan intelligence, the finding has implications for ...

Innovation, a definitively human trait, is on brilliant display in a SpaceX launch or the unveiling of a new iPhone feature. But humans aren’t special. There are plenty of examples of innovation in ...

Toolmaking is crucial for human survival, and our mammalian cousins have apparently picked up on its necessity. Orangutans surprised a group of human researchers recently when they were far more adept ...

Orangutan uses tool to help toddler get dropped bottle CaShawnna Wright shared video of the incident with the text 'my son dropped his bottle near the orangutans at the zoo, watch what happens next.' ...

The first stone tools that ancient humans made were deceptively simple. At least 2.6 million years ago, our ancestors learned to strike stones and break off sharp flakes that could function as knives.

A study in the journal Scientific Reports has described how orangutans were able to create hooks from wire to reach the handle of a basket, a surprising skill that even some human children find ...

Cognitive biologists and comparative psychologists have just studied hook tool making in a non-human primate species -- the orangutan. To the researchers' surprise the apes spontaneously manufactured ...

The bending of a hook into wire to fish for the handle of a basket is surprisingly challenging for young children under eight years of age. Now cognitive biologists and comparative psychologists from ...

A clever orangutan has become a TikTok sensation after a video of its incredible problem-solving skills left millions amazed. The primate at the Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Gardens was filmed ...