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Inside every chimp might be a budding chef, just waiting for the right opportunity to show off his culinary skills.

While it's long been known that chimps prefer cooked food when given the option, a new study goes even further, showing how chimps may have the patience, planning ability and understanding needed to do the cooking themselves if given the opportunity.

For the study, published this week in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, researchers created a "cooking" device, which was really just a bowl with a false bottom and a cooked potato slice inside. As far as the chimps knew, however, a raw potato would go inside the device, and after a short wait -- while the researchers "cooked" the tuber (by shaking it) -- it would emerge as a cooked potato slice.

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