MALI: Humans have always assumed that we were the only species with the cognitive capacity for cooking, but it turns out chimpanzees can grasp the concept too. Researchers Felix Warneken and Alexandra Rosati have discovered that the understanding of the transformation from raw food into cooked food is shared by humankind’s closest animal kin.
First of all, chimpanzees prefer food that has been cooked over raw food, the researchers claim in an article published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B. When given a choice, chimpanzees choose cooked food over uncooked food. Cooking involves a number of cognitive capacities that have always been believed to be reserved to human beings. After all, we don’t see animals, not even chimpanzees, starting campfires and cooking their own food. What if the prerequisite of fire-starting were removed from the equation though? Warneken and Rosati wondered just that.
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