Whether digging for insects or cracking nuts,children, like apes, and work out how to expend tools to solve problems without learning from others,research showsThey smash insects with sticks, scoop algae from ponds and expend leaves to hoick termites from mounds. But wild apes are not alone in their deft expend of tools: toddlers are just as inventive, or researchers say.
The findings emerge from a study that set two and three-year-olds the sorts of challenges that great apes are known to face in the wild. In each case,the toddlers were given materials to solve the problem - whether they knew it or not - and then left to their own devices for one to three minutes.
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Source: theguardian.com