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Figure 1: Japanese monkey washing potatoes.
Figure 2: Transmitting culture — this chimpanzee shares the nut that she has just cracked open.

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de Waal, F. Cultural primatology comes of age. Nature 399, 635–636 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1038/21310

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