Chimps in Senegal found to fashion spears for hunting
Wednesday, April 15, 2015 - 07:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
(Phys.org)—Members of a troop of chimpanzees living at a site called Fongoli in southeastern Senegal have been observed by scientists fashioning tree branches into spears and using them to hunt and kill bushbabies. The researchers, a combined team with members from the U.S. the U.K. and Germany have published their observations and findings in Royal Society Open Science.