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Proof that great apes like to tease each other.

It seems that our kids are not the only ones to enjoy winding up us boring adults.

The kids of great apes do as well, it seems - at least according to new research by scientists who spent hours filming them at zoos in San Diego and Leipzig in Germany.

Isabelle Laumer is a primatologist at Germany's Max Planck Institute of Animal Behaviour, and she's been speaking to Newshour's James Menendez.

(Picture: 2 gorillas playing with each other; credit - Max Planck Institute of Animal Behaviour/PA)

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