Watch a Clever Chimp Find Hidden Honey – Incredible Wildlife Footage
Sunday, 11 January 2026
Chimps love honey – and who could blame them? However, our
close relative cannot, as we do, pop down to the shops and buy some over the
counter. They have to do it the traditional way – and as such things can get a
little messy, not to mention a little dangerous. In this video from the BBC, narrated
by Sir David Attenborough, one chimp decides that it must be honey for lunch –
and she is willing to go to extremes to get it.
Unfortunately for the bees, the chimp is quite adept at
getting what she wants, using a variety of different wooden “tools” in order to
extract the honey. How on earth does she
know how to do this? At one point, a chimp did learn and passed it on. Down the
generations these skills have been honed until now they make it looks very
easy. You can see in this video a young chimp learning through imitation and
although he doesn’t seem to be doing too well, I bet in a few years he will
have mastered the art. It’s just a shame
that what took the bees years to create is destroyed in minutes. It seems they are closer to us than we might imagine,
after all.
Watch the chimps hunt for honey below.
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