Re: Re: what's in a tooth?

[Guest guest]

saw a natural history documentary about a year ago... a 'clan' of chimps were

followed for a long period... according to the primatologist, adult male chimps

eat on average 250g!!! of meat almost on a daily basis...[they hunt other

monkeys... rip them to pieces, eat their fill and hand out some of the meat to

their favourite kin]

Dedy

Re: what's in a tooth?

>

> > But the crests of teeth from A. afarensis are not only shallower

> than those

> > of early Homo, they are also shallower than those of chimpanzees,

> which

> > consume mostly soft foods such as ripe fruit, and almost no meat.

>

> According to Dangerous Grains, chimpanzees consume a diet of 15%

> meat, much of it other chimpanzees.

That's an interesting statistic, and I'd be curious where they get it

from. My understanding was that chimpanzees' meat consumption was

closer to 5% and that it was made up mostly of insects and perhaps

some eggs, and that once a month or so the males will form groups and

hunt down monkeys (not other chimpanzees).

--Mike