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To crack open a nut, a chimpanzee chooses to use two tools: a hammer, and an anvil. The hammer is held in the hand and brought down heavily onto a nut sitting atop the anvil.

Cracking nuts by chimps, the researchers note, is an example of tool use by chimps. To measure nut cracking ability in chimps, the research team broke it down into five types of ability ...