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Chimpanzees What they eat! |
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Chimps don't eat just one thing. They eat a lot of things. If you want to learn more about what chimps eat, then this is the right page for you!
By:Molly Chimpanzees are omnivores (eating plants, fruit, and meat). They eat mostly fruit. In long dry seasons when fruit is scarce, tree seeds, flowers, and bark become an important part of their diet.Chimps eat big fruit with their hands. After eating for a while, chimps will know which fruit is ripe or not ripe. Plants take second place in what chimps. There are 80 different types of plants that chimps eat. Three of them are leaves, buds, and blossoms.Chimps eat the least meat.Chimpanzees don’t eat meat very often. In fact, meat is considered “gourmet” among the chimps. They only eat meat when they hunt. When they do eat meat, they eat almost everything, including the brain. They also eat many different types of insects. Chimpanzees get insects by picking them off things and each other. Termites are the most nutritionally important. Termites are collected by hand or with tools which are made by the chimpanzee and specifically used for this purpose. They use the tools like straws to suck the termites out of their mounds. They have been observed by Dr. Jane Goodall using tools to get the termites out of their mounds. They make the tools themselves, and the tools work very well. (On the bottom right is a picture of a chimpanzee using a tool that they made to get termites out of their mounds.) They usually take some kind of stick or bamboo rod and put it in the hole, scooping out termites and then they can proceed to eat them. Chimpanzees are very clever creatures, much like us. We hope you like our website! If you want to learn more go to the 24 reference librarian website and ask them more questions about chimpanzees. See you later!!! A chimp's life! - By: Rahaf When chimps evolved! - By: Joey How chimps communicate! - By: Tejas |
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