"Young female chimpanzees learn certain hunting and gathering skills from their mothers much faster than their male counterparts -- who prefer to spend their time playing, researchers said Wednesday.
In a study of wild chimps from the Gombe National Park in Tanzania, researchers found distinct sex-based differences in the way the young animals developed the skill of fishing for termites, despite their mothers paying equal attention to both sexes and being as tolerant with males as females."
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"'A similar disparity in the ability of young males and females to learn skills has been demonstrated in human children and may be indicative of different learning processes.'"
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"The young females also chose to spend more time watching and learning from their mothers, while the males spent significantly more time playing, the study found."
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=585&e=1&u=/nm/20040414/sc_nm/science_chimps_dcMales are fucking slackers...