This actually helped advance the evolutionary process for their species. Forcing the weaker ones and females to compete for food has forced others to develop alternative ways to hunt. National Geographic’s article states “In 2007 Jill Pruetz, an anthropologist at Iowa State University, reported that a Fongoli female chimp named Tumbo was seen two years earlier, less than a mile from where we are right now, sharpening a branch with her teeth and wielding it like a spear. She used it to stab at a bush baby—a pocket-size, tree-dwelling nocturnal primate that springs from branch to branch like a grasshopper.” From the necessity of food chimps have begun to advance to the evolutionary stage of using
This actually helped advance the evolutionary process for their species. Forcing the weaker ones and females to compete for food has forced others to develop alternative ways to hunt. National Geographic’s article states “In 2007 Jill Pruetz, an anthropologist at Iowa State University, reported that a Fongoli female chimp named Tumbo was seen two years earlier, less than a mile from where we are right now, sharpening a branch with her teeth and wielding it like a spear. She used it to stab at a bush baby—a pocket-size, tree-dwelling nocturnal primate that springs from branch to branch like a grasshopper.” From the necessity of food chimps have begun to advance to the evolutionary stage of using