Yet in 1864, Captain Thomas Musgrave and his crew did just that- and a few months later,
on the opposite side of the island, so did the crew of the Scottish ship Invercauld.
Said Musgrave,"studying how young chimpanzees learn
the tool skills particular to their group helps us to understand the evolutionary origins of culture and technology and to clarify how human cultural abilities are similar to or different from those of our closest living relatives.".
Studying how young chimpanzees learn the tool skills particular to their group helps us to understand the evolutionary origins of culture and technology and to clarify how human cultural abilities are similar to or
different from those of our closest living relatives,” Musgrave said.