Which Primates besides Humans are Major Meat Eaters and what kind of Meat do they Eat?

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Karen Hill

Two of the primates are major meat eaters, humans and chimps.

You already know what people eat.

A study of chimpanzee populations found that about 75 percent of the meat that chimps consumed consisted of red colobus monkey babies taken from their mothers.

But researchers found that a chimp’s main motivation for hunting is often sex, if members of a hunting party offer fresh meat to a female in heat, most or all are likely to get lucky.

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