Chimp Hunters

[gangrel441]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0702230043feb23,1,5595778.story?coll=chi-news-hed

Using their hands and teeth, the chimpanzees were repeatedly seen tearing the side branches off long straight sticks, peeling back the bark and sharpening one end, 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 monkeylike mammals--sleep. "It was really alarming how forceful it was," said lead researcher Jill Pruetz of Iowa State University in Ames, adding that it reminded her of the murderous shower scene in the Alfred Hitchcock movie "Psycho." "It was kind of scary."

 

[DennisW]

Chimps are more like humans than we would like to admit. They aren't just cute little apes. A chimp may very well kill and eat you.

 

[Diver Dennis]

I've seen a documentary of Chimps in a pack hunting Howler Monkeys or some type of monkey and feasting on them afterwards. It was quite disturbing actually.

 

[Cacia]

I never have warmed up to them, really.

 

[dlndavid]

Next they'll be using them for insurance commercials....so easy, even a chimp could do it.