Chimpanzee diving into the water and loves it

For many years, zoos have used water moats to confine chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans. When apes ventured into deep water, they often drowned. Some argued that this indicated a definitive difference between humans and apes: people enjoy the water and are able to learn to swim, while apes prefer to stay on dry land. But it turned out that this distinction is not absolute. Renato Bender, who was working on a PhD in human evolution at the School of Anatomical Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits University), and Nicole Bender, who worked as an evolutionary physician and epidemiologist at the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine at the University of Bern, have studied a chimpanzee and an orangutan in the US. These primates were raised and cared for by humans and have learnt to swim and to dive. Their findings have been published online on 30 July 2013, in The American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Perhaps this ability to learn to like water and learn to s