TEMPO.CO, Kigoma – In the wilds, chimpanzees and leopards are unlikely to engage in a close quarter encounter. But what will happen if they do?
For the first time, scientists have found evidence of a leopard attacking and eating a chimpanzee.
Researchers spent 41 days in Tanzania's Mahale Mountains National Park to collect African leopard scat. In one of the samples, scientists found several chimpanzee kneecaps and toe bones. DNA analysis proved that the bones were an adult female chimp.
However, the researchers could not entirely be certain that leopards intentionally hunted down chimapanzees because leopards are know to occasionally eat dead animals.
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