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The Mystery of the Leopard-Eating Bili-Apes with Cleve Hicks & Toni Romani | S3E48

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Dr Hicks and colleagues examine ground-nests in the rainforest. 

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Toni Romani tests out the chimp nests! GET DOWN YOUNG MAN!

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One of the honey-pounding tools Cleve and his team found in Ngotto. You wouldn’t like to see that heading towards your house if you were a bee!

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Cleve lies next to a variation of chimp tools. Note the incredible diversity in size. They were right after all…chimps are pretty darn smart!

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Sorry if this disappoints you but it wasn’t bigfoot after all. Here they are, the equally fascinating Bili-Gangu Chimpanzees. Photo: Cleve Hicks.

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PRIMATOLOGISTS AT WORK: Cleve and Toni (clearly in their element) out in the field.

Chimp ground nests decay faster than tree nests which has implications for monitoring and conservation. Read more here. 

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