Primates and Predator Interactions

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@Pckts:

About #16: First time I read a such account, very interesting and impressive ! It's clear that the threat by lions can oblige the chimpanzees to modify their behaviour. The lions living in prides too, we can imagine two or three hidden lionesses catching together in one go two or three chimpanzees before they could climb into the trees. In this case the lion becomes clearly the top predator of the chimpanzee in this portion of Tanzania.

Other thing: it is useless to precise than chimpanzees and lions are sympatric species. But the gorillas and the chimpanzees too, thus the myth of the hybride gorilla-chimpanzee existence, an hybrid able to defend itself  and to retaliate against a lion, and finally to eat it, is clearly a myth, an amusing myth but a myth ! Reply