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Chimps interview (4:25)


Listen February 23, 2007 permalink

One of the differences between human beings and other primates is that human beings are capable of making weapons. Not necessarily, say some US researchers in Senegal. They saw a young female chimpanzee make a weapon and use it to kill prey. Host Marco Werman gets the story from one of the researchers, Jill Pruetz who is at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa.


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