These primates use very human like skills in three new episodes of the BBC television documentary monkey planet. Kanz, a bonobo living in the United States, has learned how to make a fire, light a wood pile with a match, and then bake marshmallows with a fire. It reveals how similar some primates are to us.
Kenz built the fire with dry branches and then skillfully lit it with matches.
When he skillfully forked a branch of cotton candy, his hands looked almost the same as those of his hands.
Kanz stood in a safe place baking marshmallows.
Thailand's brightest long tailed macaque cleans its teeth with hair pulled from tourists' heads. From baking marshmallows on fire, writing with paper and pen to flossing your teeth, these primates have found better ways to kill time.