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07-31-2015, 01:17 AM

How amazing is this??!!!Kanzi the Bonobo chimp knows how to start a fire and cook his own food (11 Photos & Video)
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Kanzi, a 33-year-old ape residing at the The Great Ape Trust & Learning Center in Iowa, has already made headlines several times for his astonishing linguistic aptitude. But recently, it appears that the easygoing bonobo chimp also has developed a new interest – cooking.
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Spending much of his childhood outdoors with his main handler Dr Savage-Rumbaugh, Kanzi showed interest in the campfires she made to cook food. “At age five he began making small piles of sticks and tried to light them. I had to keep a close eye on him, but I allowed it because he was clearly interested in practicing it. His demeanor when he focused on making fire was just like when he watched the movie. He seemed engrossed in it and it appeared that he associated making fires with watching the film.”

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These extraordinary photos show Kanzi collecting the wood, breaking it up and putting it into a pile.
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Kanzi will then grab a match, light a fire and place a grill over the fire so he can barbecue his food in a frying pan.
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“Kanzi makes fire because he wants to. His fascination began when he was a child, watching the film ‘Quest for Fire’. The movie was released about a year after Kanzi was born and was about early man struggling to control fire. Kanzi watched this spellbound over and over hundreds of times.”
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“It is not clear that Kanzi can do all aspects of making, controlling and employing fire at this point in time. For example he doesn’t stay close and carefully monitor the fire once it is going, though he will throw on wood at a distance. But he has not had the true environmental pressures on him that would lead him to desire to use fires for warmth.”
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“He has a warm bed every night so he doesn’t need to keep himself warm, like the humans who first harnessed fire did, and he has never encountered predators, so he doesn’t need to frighten any away. If these were employed in the future, his fire-making skills might leap into the action at a much higher level.”

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“For now, for Kanzi, fire is about making cooked food and roasting marshmallows, which he enjoys very much.”Mobile users – check out the video of Kanzi cooking RIGHT HERE.
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Bonobos are listed as endangered by the IUCN Red List and are found only in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Africa. Over the last 30 years their population has been decreasing severely due to destruction of their habitat by humans. To make matters worse, the Great Ape Trust is currently under threat due to a loss of funding – leaving Kanzi’s (and many others) future unclear. You can donate to the Great Ape Trust at ArtForBonoboHope.org
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