Primate hunting by bonobos at LuiKotale, Salonga National Park

SummaryChimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and bonobos (P. paniscus) hunt and consume the meat of various mammals. While chimpanzees frequently hunt in groups for arboreal, group-living monkey species [1,2], bonobos are thought to focus on medium-sized terrestrial prey, such as forest antelopes, squirrels and other rodents, which are caught opportunistically by single individuals [3]. The absence of monkey hunting by bonobos is often used to illustrate the divergent evolution of the two Pan species [4]. Here, we present the first information on hunting of diurnal, arboreal and group living primates by wild bonobos