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Scientists left camera traps to record wild apes

They just monkeyed around.
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Researchers at Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology conducted a large scale field experiment to find out how apes react to unfamiliar objects, such as monitoring equipment, in their natural habitats. Here's what happened.

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