For the first time, researchers have observed wild chimpanzees making and using tools for hunting. What’s more, it’s mostly the female chimps and juveniles that adopt this style of attack, which occasionally nabs a small mammal that the chimp then eats.
MEET THE HUNTRESS. Although Tia, a female Fongoli chimp, looks peaceful, researchers on several occasions observed her using a sharpened branch to hunt bush babies.
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