article_snippet.sent: While young children must be shown the highway code to cross roads safely, it seems chimpanzees have taught chimpanzees.
article_snippet.sent: Researchers studying chimps in Uganda say the apes are having to adapt to cope with increasingly busy roads cutting across the apes territory.
article_snippet.sent: Researchers studying chimps in Uganda found at a busy asphalted road through the Sebitoli area of Kibale National Park in Uganda, Chimps have learned to look both ways before crossing.
article_snippet.sent: Chimpanzees crossing a busy road in Kibale National Park in Uganda (above) have learned to look for traffic .
article_snippet.sent: Scientists discovered Chimps will also often run across roads, while dominant males will wait to ensure younger chimps cross safely.
article_snippet.sent: It is the first time chimpanzees have been seen to change the first time chimpanzees behaviour to adapt to busy roads.
article_snippet.sent: However, chimpanzees living in the surrounding forests appear to have learned about the danger it poses.
article_snippet.sent: chimpanzees living in the surrounding forests watched 122 chimps cross the road in Sebitoli over the course of two and half years.
article_snippet.sent: chimpanzees living in the surrounding forests found most of 122 chimps looked for traffic before crossing and as chimpanzees living in the surrounding forests crossed.
article_snippet.sent: Adult chimps, like this one, tended to wait for younger chimps to cross and checked Adult chimps got over safely .
article_snippet.sent: Around 20 per cent of the chimps that crossed would turn to check on other members of the group to ensure other members of the group were crossing safely.
article_snippet.sent: Chimps have been noticed to cross in similar ways on other non-asphalted roads.
article_snippet.sent: Miss Cibot said: 'These observations are relevant for our understanding of adaptive behavior among chimpanzees in human-impacted habitats. '
highlights_snippet.sent: Chimps were observed crossing busy road in Kibale National Park, Uganda .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Most of Chimps looked left, right or both ways before crossing the road .
  