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Ok, so I read "bushbabies" and thought "human babies that life in the bush", not bushbabies. It's a lot more disturbing to think that the apes have finally started hunting us.
"It appears that the chimps have learnt a grizzly method of slowing them down."
So the chimps learned some new tricks from watching bears or the proofreaders dropped the ball.
I remember being shocked and horrified seeing some David Attenborough wildlife programme a few years ago which shows a gang of chimps hunting, killing and eating an antelope. Until then I thought they only ate bananas.
Danf, bushbabies are indeed primates, but in a very different part of the tree.
There's a reason that the distinction is made between "lesser primates" (monkeys and lemurs and bushbabies, etc.) and "greater primates" (chimps and gorillas and humans, oh my). We're much further along on the evolutionary scale.
Note that further down in the story, it mentions that other chimp groups hunt green monkeys.
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