National Geographic: The New Chimpanzees Page #3
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to extract every last drop of juice.
But the calls of colobus monkeys
whet another appetite
not so easily satisfied.
When a monkey troop is spotted nearby,
the most avid hunter recruits other
males to join forces in a hunting party
Red colobus monkeys nervously watch
the gathering of bodies below.
Craig Stanford studies the relationship
between colobus and chimps.
He hopes to shed light on the origins
of human hunting.
We know that, at some point early
in human evolution,
of the diet.
We don't understand exactly
how that happened
was it scavenging meat or hunting meat
Well, we know that the earliest stage
in a habitat just like this.
East African woodland that's got
open areas
onto which our ancestors eventually
moved and adapted to.
So, to be able to study hunting here
is the best way
to give us some kind of window
onto the earliest origins
of meat eating in our ancestors,
four or more million years ago.
Frodo is the best of the Gombe hunters
He's 17 years old and yet he's killed
in the last three years.
It's really quite an incredible animal
and a great hunter.
That was Frodo.
All the hunters, including Frodo,
will try to catch a monkey for himself
By joining forces, the chimps hope
to strand some monkeys
in an isolated treetop,
with no route of escape except
into the clutches of a chimp.
Although we see elements
of cooperation at Gombe,
what we thing we're seeing mainly
is individual,
selfish behavior by male hunters,
done within a communal setting.
It's a little bit like a baseball game
in that baseball is a communal game
in which individual players are
doing their piece and in the end,
the end result is going
to be success or a failure.
the greater the odds
of success and, yet,
each individual hunter
is performing selfishly.
the highest branches
too slender to bear a chimp's weight.
They will even take the offensive
momentarily driving the chimps back.
Holding his tail out of
the chimp's reach,
this male buys precious time for
the escape of the females and young.
Excited by the cries of hunter
and prey, females appear below.
Eighty feet above the ground,
Frodo displays his daring technique.
But this time, he misses.
With chimps climbing everywhere,
one monkey leaps
into the arms of death.
Even a rear attack by
the defending colobus cannot save him.
with his kill,
but his triumph is short liver.
Freud simply confiscates the carcass.
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