>re>animal rights
>In response to Brian Luke's "... if for some reason we must insist on deriving
>our ethics by looking at other animals, why focus on the 20% of animal species
>who are predators, rather than the 80% who are vegetarians? Instead of
>insisting on the human right to "kill with the grace of a cat," why not
>celebrate our capacity to enact veganism with the peace and dignity of a
>mountain gorilla--at least then we'd be copying a fellow primate!" --
>Was it chimpanzees or gorillas that have been found to not only be
>"occasionally" carniverous, but cannibalistic?
>Sorry not to be able to find the source, Rebecca Ross.
Rebecca,
Yes, on very rare occassions do chimpanzees eat flesh of another animal.
On these rare occasions, they usually hunt the animal down. However, i
have never read anywhere that chimps are cannibalistic...but maybe i'm
wrong.
Eric
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