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Meat is a prominent part of chimpanzee diet; pre-human hominidsate meat for 2.25 million years (biologically adapted to meat)
chico wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 07:36:37 -0800 Rudy Canoza > wrote:
>> 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.
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>> 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.
>
> I wonder if he has much experience with lesser/lower primates like Lesley.
Sure. She's like the colubus monkeys the chimps like
to eat.
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