NewScientist: Forget doggy paddle – apes prefer breaststroke

NewScientist: Forget doggy paddle – apes prefer breaststroke

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Different strokes for different folks? Not when it comes to the aquatic ape: the first detailed observations of swimming chimpanzees and orang-utans suggest that they, like us, tend to swim using a form of breaststroke. The findings imply that we may owe our swimming style to our evolutionary past.

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