When I talk about my time in the field, and how wonderful and fascinating chimpanzees are, one thing that often surprises people is that chimps eat meat. Listeners are truly shocked—”Wait what?” they say, “Chimps eat other animals?” They do, I say. They eat piglets, and small deer, but mostly monkeys. The chimps of Ngogo, Uganda, spend a good amount of time hunting monkeys—often opportunistically, when they encounter some while traveling—and eat their prey raw. It can be a grisly scene. Chimps everywhere tend to target a monkey called the red colobus. There are many other monkeys, and even another kind of colobus—the black-and-white colobus, very beautiful. ….[READ]
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