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Are there evil chimpanzees, as well as friendly ones?

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This is what I picked up working at a chimpanzee colony many years ago. I wouldn't say they can be evil but they can be very dangerous. read more

Chimpanzees, on the whole, are highly aggressive animals — perhaps even more so than humans. ‘Evil’ isn’t a term I’d use for anything real. Chimps are dangerous. A friendly chimpanzee could still lose its temper at some point, and bite your face off. (Literally). read more

Jane, now 83, admits: “I didn’t know chimpanzees can rip your face off. There was no one talking about that. “There were no people out in the field whose research I could read about, except one man who painted himself with baboon poo and sat in hides, hoping chimpanzees would appear. read more

At Tai, Christophe Boesch has documented highly cooperative hunting behavior by the chimpanzees there, and meat-sharing behavior after a kill that rewards those chimps who participated in the hunt. One of the main recent findings about hunting by chimpanzees was its seasonality (Stanford et al. 1994a). read more

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