Chimps Use Spears to Hunt

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
Jill D. Pruetz, an anthropologist from Iowa State University, has observed chimpanzees in West Africa making spears from sticks and using them to hunt small mammals. This is the first time the routine production of deadly weapons has been observed in animals other than humans.

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