pearl wrote:
> "Rudy Canoza" > wrote in message ...
>> In the early 1960s, when the british primatologist
>> Jane Goodall first observed wild chimpanzees hunting
>> and eating meat in Gombe National Park, Tanzania, it
>> was widely believed that these animals were strict
>> vegetarians. Skeptics suggested that the diet of the
>> Gombe chimpanzees was aberrant.
>
> Gombe National Park is a limited and highly populated area.

Chimpanzees hunt throughout their range.

In the early 1960's, when Dr. Jane Goodall began her
now famous study of the chimpanzees of Gombe
National Park, Tanzania, it was thought that
chimpanzees were strictly vegetarian. In fact, when
Goodall first reported this behavior, many people
were skeptical and claimed that meat was not a
natural part of the chimpanzee diet. Today, hunting
by chimpanzees at Gombe has been well documented
(Teleki 1973; Goodall 1986), and hunting has also
been observed at most other sites in Africa where
chimpanzees have been studied, including Mahale
Mountains National Park (Uehara et al. 1992) (also
in Tanzania) and Tai National Park in Ivory Coast in
West Africa (Boesch and Boesch 1989). At Gombe, we
now know that chimpanzees may kill and eat more than
150 small and medium sized animals such as monkeys,
wild pigs and small antelopes each year.
http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~stanford/chimphunt.html


Craig Stanford is the foremost expert in chimpanzee
behavior today.