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They had previously been characterized as entirely herbivorous, like gorillas, Goodall observed them hunting, killing and eating small mammals such as bush pigs and colobus monkeys, by any standard a complicated collaborative enterprise.

From Salon

She also found that chimps hunted prey, ate meat, and were capable of a range of emotions and behaviors similar to those of humans, including filial love, grief and violence bordering on warfare.

It caused outrage, and police are facing a renewed backlash over their failure to hunt down Khalusha more than a year later.

From BBC

At one point, among doctors and nurses, the only topic of conversation in the hospital was food, and the desperate hunt for it.

From BBC

They are known for hunting together as a team with vision eight times better than that of humans.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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