Abstract
Professor Toshisada Nishida wrote “chimpanzees are always new to me” (1) almost 15 years ago, but his statement still holds. Far from exhausting the breadth and depth of chimpanzee behavior, even when there are more long-term field studies than ever before, field primatologists studying Pan troglodytes continue to report new discoveries. Moreover, some of these findings, such as that of the spear-hunting chimpanzees of Fongoli, Senegal (2), are so unexpected that they make popular as well as scientific news. Likely to make similar waves is the report by Hernandez-Aguilar et al. (3) in this issue of PNAS that wild chimpanzees use digging tools to harvest plant underground storage organs.
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