"Exceedingly Rare" Footage of Chimp Using a Tool

If you stumbled upon a video camera in your backyard, wouldn't you investigate?

In “exceedingly rare” footage from the Batéké Plateau National Park in Gabon, an inquisitive - and obviously slightly cautious - chimpanzee did the same. Clasping a long stick between its fingers, the curious ape poked at the camera’s lens before eventually turning around and scurrying away.

When scientists at the park in Gabon, Africa, initially set up the camera, they were hoping to capture snippets of lions and leopards. Members of wild cat conservation nonprofit Panthera, the researchers are on a mission to rebuild the park’s lion population in what will be the first-ever lion restoration in West and Central Africa.

However, instead of filming big cats, the video camera captured this footage...