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>> >> The PBS science show Nova had this week a show on chimps. Not only did
>> >> they eat meat with great relish they did so at every opportunity.
>> >>
>> >> They had invented a kind of spear to kill animals to eat. They hunt
>> >> with group cooperation and share the meat among themselves.
>> >
>> > Where?
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>> In their entire range.
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>'Relating Chimpanzee Diets to Potential Australopithecine Diets
>Conklin-Brittain, Nancy Lou
>Wrangham, Richard W.
>
>We report data using an ape model to reconstruct the nutrient
>composition of the frugivorous diet of our last common ancestor
>with African great apes. We aimed to determine whether the
>African ape clade, from which hominids evolved, has any unusual
>features. We studied frugivory by comparing chimpanzee diets to
>that of three species of cercopithecine monkeys in Kibale Forest,
>Uganda.
>
>Data came from a 12-month period that showed inter-monthly
>variation in fruit abundance. The monkeys consumed stable
>nutrient levels except for lipid, which was low (3.2 +/- 2.0 %
>dry matter (DM)), but peaked at about 9% DM during ripe fruit
>abundance. Chimpanzees also consumed low lipid and sugar diets
>during fruit poor seasons. Protein intake reflected each species'
>fallback food: leaf consumption kept the protein levels high for
>monkeys (16.7 +/- 1.9% DM); chimpanzees relied on herbaceous
>piths and maintained a low protein intake (9.5 +/- 3.0% DM).
>Fallback food was probably also responsible for the high fiber
>(NDF) intakes by monkeys, which was not significantly different
>from chimpanzees' (32.4 +/- 3.6% NDF versus 33.6 +/- 4.5%
>NDF respectively).
>
>Three conclusions emerge: fat intake was low for all frugivores,
>protein intake was low for chimpanzees, and fiber intake was high
>for all species. Our data (from a lipid-poor habitat) show that
>high lipid or high protein is not needed for normal health and
>reproduction of chimpanzees. Therefore, hominids were probably
>capable of living on a low-fat, low-protein diet such as would be
>provided by fibrous roots commonly found in a seasonal woodland
>environment.
>
>http://www.cast.uark.edu/local/icaes...onklin/abstrac
>t.html

In science the answers one gets is a function of the questions one asks.
Tabove does not answer the question do chimps eat meat with grea relish,
share it among themselves, produce tools to hunt animals, and hunt
cooperatively.

The above was asking about proportions of macro nutrients and seasonal
feeding habits.