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Orangutans Have a 'Cultural Encyclopaedia' to Know How to Eat when They Become Independent

Summary by efeverde.com
When an orangutan separates from his mother, after spending the first fifteen years together approximately, he already carries with him a kind of mental catalogue of almost 250 edible plants and animals, and the knowledge of how to obtain them. A study collected in the journal Nature Human Behaviour reveals that no orangutan could acquire on his own, through the typical test-error test, this kind of ‘encyclopedic knowledge’ to feed on his own wh…
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When an orangutan separates from his mother, after spending the first fifteen years together approximately, he already carries with him a kind of mental catalogue of almost 250 edible plants and animals, and the knowledge of how to obtain them. A study collected in the journal Nature Human Behaviour reveals that no orangutan could acquire on his own, through the typical test-error test, this kind of ‘encyclopedic knowledge’ to feed on his own wh…

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efeverde.com broke the news in on Tuesday, November 25, 2025.
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