In a first, chimps found bashing tortoises against trees to get at the meat

Mongabay
May 29, 2019, 11:45 am244 pts
Chimpanzees in Gabon’s Loango National Park have tortoises on their menu. For the first time, researchers have observed the great apes vigorously smashing forest hinge-back tortoises (Kinixys erosa) against tree trunks to try and crack open their shells and extract meat out of them. Sometimes, the chimps…

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