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Animal Independence: Finding Food

In Animal Independence: Finding Food, narrator Gordon Buchanan explains how young animals must learn to provide their own food to become independent. Grizzly bear cubs in British Columbia learn to fish for salmon by watching their mother. Capuchin monkeys in Brazil use rocks to smash palm nuts and sticks to pull sap from inside trees. This video is excerpted from BBC's Animal Babies, a heartwarming show that follows the first breaths, first steps and first feeds of some adorable baby animals, revealing the challenges they face to survive in some of the toughest but most beautiful places on the planet.
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British Columbia and Brazil
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Animal Babies
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6:45
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Q: How did the animals learn to find their own food?
A: They watched their parents and then practiced alongside them.

Q: How were the animals in the video similar when it came to finding their own food?
A: They weren’t perfect at first.

Q: How were the animals in the video different when it came to finding their own food?
A: The capuchins used tools, but the bears didn’t.

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