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Researchers have found at least 39 local customs related to chimpanzee tool use, grooming, and courtship. these customs are transmitted to peers and offspring. because these activities are learned rather than genetic, they indicate that these animals have developed a(n) _____.

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They indicate that these animals have developed a kind of "cultural diversity".

When a researcher Jane Goodall decided to go and live among chimpanzees in Tanzania she made the groundbreaking discovery that chimpanzees are capable of making their own tools and then used them. Before 1960 it was only known for man to exhibit such traits.
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