Females took to weapons first, say chimp hunts

• Autores: Bob Holmes
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3017, 2015, pág. 11
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Women could have been the first humans to use weapons to hunt. An analysis of spear-wielding chimps, most of which are females, suggests the idea may not be as eccentric as it may sound. In 2007, Jill Pruetz from Iowa State University in Ames discovered that chimps in Fongoli, Senegal, thrust sharpened sticks into nest holes in trees to stab or club small, nocturnal primates called bushbabies. Pruetz and her team observed 308 such hunts up until 2014. Females carried out 61 per cent of them, despite making up only 39 per cent of the chimps in hunting parties