Male Chimps Exchange Meat for Sex (Photos)
April 09, 2009
This week at Discovery News we told you about how male chimpanzees exchange meat for sex. I'd like to share with you some (G-rated) photographs illustrating that point. Credit for all goes to Cristina M. Gomes of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany. I don't know about you, but I think she could quit her day job to become a full-time wildlife photographer, given the quality of these images.
Isha, an adult female wild chimpanzee, holding a piece of meat (the
foot of a black and white colobus) that she received from an adult male
chimpanzee
Sagu, an adult male chimpanzee, holding the rib cage of a red colobus he caught
Utan, an adult male, holding a piece of meat of a red colobus;
with Kinshasa, an adult female chimpanzee with her infant Kirikou on
her back, begging from Utan
Kinshasa holding a piece of meat she received some minutes before from Utan, the adult male chimpanzee














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Posted by: Jennifer Viegas | April 13, 2009 at 01:34 PM
chimpanzee is very similar to humans they also eat the flesh
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