Thursday, February 22, 2007

Mr. Chimp. In the Dining Room. With a Spear.

Well, this is just amazing:
Chimpanzees are capable of making spears to hunt other primates and have been seen using the weapons to apparently kill bushbabies for meat, scientists announced Thursday.

The researchers based their findings on observations of omnivorous chimps that dwell in savannahs similar to those from which humanity's ancestors are thought to have emerged.

Read about it here.

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