Taste of chimpanzee foods* Chapter 18 Mahale Chimpanzees Chimpanzees also hunt and eat larger animals such as young bushbucks, bushpigs, colobus monkeys and young baboons. Early hominins likely ate more meat1 than any extant nonhuman primate species (Milton, 1999a, Balter et al., 2012). This increase is central to hypotheses addressing the evolution of the unique suite of human traits, including large brains (Aiello and Wheeler, 1995), central-place foraging (Isaac, 1978) and cooperation (Tomasello et al., 2012). Understanding the relative benefits and costs …
