Hiraiwa-Hasegawa M, Byrne R W, Takasaki H, Byrne J M
Folia Primatol (Basel). 1986;47(1):8-13. doi: 10.1159/000156259.
In the Mahale Mountains National Park of Tanzania, a group of about 33 chimpanzees were observed to surround a leopard den containing a mother and at least one cub and to drag out and kill the cub. This is the first report of chimpanzees or any other primate species killing their potential predator's offspring. The incident suggests that chimpanzees, without any weapons, can manage to defend themselves against a carnivore of at least up to leopard size, and implicates how the early hominids may have reacted against their potential predators.
在坦桑尼亚的马哈勒山脉国家公园，人们观察到一群约33只黑猩猩包围了一个有一只母豹和至少一只幼崽的豹窝，并将幼崽拖出并杀死。这是关于黑猩猩或任何其他灵长类物种杀死其潜在捕食者后代的首次报道。这一事件表明，黑猩猩在没有任何武器的情况下，能够设法抵御至少像豹那么大的食肉动物，这也暗示了早期人类可能是如何应对其潜在捕食者的。
