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Chimps love crystals and won't give them back

Good luck getting a quartz crystal back from a chimpanzee. Researchers at Spain's Rainfer Fundación Chimpatia near Madrid handed crystals to two groups of rescued chimps and quickly discovered the hard part wasn't the science — it was the negotiations. Caretakers had to trade bananas and yogurt to retrieve the largest specimen.
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