Non-Human Primate Culture

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Although it may be hard to believe, scientists have performed experiments providing proof that non-human primates, as well as other species, do in fact have culture. Primate adults share their knowledge by teaching their young the tools and tricks they have learned from generations before them in their own particular social group. Primates have been found to have many things in common in what we believed was human culture. For example, primates live together in groups. While one social group may differfrom the other in the ways they eat, hunt, and socialize because the groups have learned the knowledge from older generations therefore they have adapted differently and have their own culture. Since the parents raise their young to learn from

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