Tobacco farming is driving apes to seek unusual food source, brimming with pathogens. On a sunny day 7 years ago in the Budongo Forest Reserve in Uganda, researchers were startled to observe chimpanzees scoop dry bat feces from under a hollow tree and devour it.
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Nov 20, 2017 · While chimpanzees might be incredibly intelligent, they still kill and devour infants, chow down on ear wax, and pick through their poop to eat ...
Nov 20, 2017 · Despite a tendency to sometimes pick through their own poop to find edibles, chimps have actually been observed to be quite hygienic with their ...
Nov 29, 2011 · In fact, wild chimpanzees sometimes pick through poo for undigested bits of food, but often they do so without actually touching the poo itself.
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Mar 1, 2019 · And while chimpanzees don't regularly eat their feces, they do from time to time, for the same reason as rabbits: it is only partially digested ...
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Coprophagy (deliberately eating faeces) is an intriguing abnormal behaviour because, unlike many abnormal behaviours, it is performed at higher rates among ...
Jun 29, 2018 · Wild chimps are known to pick through feces for seeds and re-ingest them. In fact, chimps in captivity have sometimes eaten their own feces or ...
Nov 20, 2017 · Chimpanzees famously fling their own poop and have no problem picking seeds out of it, but scientists say our primate cousins may be a bit ...
Nov 17, 2017 · A series of novel experiments show that chimpanzees delay eating food items placed atop replica feces compared to the more benign brown foam; ...