Jan 03 2010
Monkey Flosses Teeth
A monkey in Japan flosses its teeth with its hair. Nope…humans aren’t the only ones who clean their teeth and create tools to accomplish the job.
The flosser is a free-ranging, middle-aged, female Japanese macaque. The monkey has devised three different ways of flossing her teeth. Too bad she doesn’t have access to Baldwin hardware…wonder what she’d do with that!
The monkey is a mid-ranking monkey so she spends a lot of her day grooming others. Researchers observed her rolling small stones in her hand, attempting to remove a spine stuck in her palm. It’s possible she is a particularly innovative monkey.
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