The chimps were repeatedly seen using their hands and teeth to tear the side branches off long straight sticks and peeling back the bark and sharpening one end of the sticks with their teeth, the researchers report in Thursday's online issue of the journal Current Biology. Then, grasping the weapon in a "power grip," they jabbed into tree-branch hollows where bush babies — small monkey-like mammals — sleep during the day.
After stabbing their prey, they removed the injured or dead animal and ate it.
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Friday, February 23, 2007
Chimps Make Bush Baby-Kabobs
From the L. A. Times:
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animals,
chimpanzees
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