I wish people would learn English, most especially hack headline writers.
“Controlling” means you can create it. You can extinguish it. You can make it burn right or left, or up and down.
All I read from the article says that chimps have finally figured out that fire is hot and they have a dim clue about whether to run or not.
Given that, it sounds like chimps might make good editors for Sciencedaily!
But there ain’t a single thing here to suggest “controlling”...
Oooops!
And my apologies to Sciencedaily. It’s another outfit called “livescience”.
But the chimps don’t know, so what difference does it make?