If God created humans in his image, he didn’t create the great apes very far behind. When Louise Leakey heard the reports from Jane Goodall, whom he had sent to Tanzania to study the chimps, that they were making and using tools, he wote, “We must now redefine man, redefine tool, or accept chimpanzees as human!”
The more we learn about the great apes the more reasonable it sounds to include them in the human family (don’t some people already?). Here are a couple of interesting articles making them feel closer than ever. Science Daily reports on research that finds “weigh their chances of success, based on what they know and the likelihood to succeed when guessing”. Additionally, scientists studying chimpanzees have known for a long time that they’ll hoot to warn of danger, like many animals, but “they don’t bother warning other chimpanzees already alert to the dangers.”
Both of these discoveries show more behavior in the apes we thought more likely to be possessed only by humans. Cool stuff! Read up!