answersLogoWhite

0

Yes, there have been numerous cases where chimps have eaten human children. For instance, Frodo, the alpha male of the Gombe community, ate the baby of a Gombe National Park employee on May 15, 2002. What happened was the employee's wife and teenaged niece, who was carrying the baby, were walking on a footpath when they startled Frodo. He grabbed the baby and climbed up into a tree and started to eat it. They did not euthanize him because the wife had broken the rules by bringing the baby to such a dangerous area and because he was simply acting on instinct. Chimps eat small monkeys, which look very similar to a human baby. See the attached links below for more info.

User Avatar

Wiki User

12y ago

What else can I help you with?

Related Questions

Can Chimpanzees eat humans?

Yes. Why couldn't they?


What chimpanzees eat?

chimpanzees eat berries and plants


What organisms eat ants?

Ant Bears, Ant Eaters, Chimpanzees, Humans, Birds, Lizards.


Examples of omnivores?

Bears, humans and chimpanzees are all omnivores


What animals eat chipanze?

Humans eat chimpanzees pie in some areas of the world, though this is illegal. Not much else has ever been observed eating chimpanzees. On rare occasions, chimps are cannibalistic, particularly after they kill an unrelated infant chimpanzee. Leopards probably eat chimpanzees when they (very rarely) get a chance---this is why chimpanzees sleep in nests up in the canopy.gorillas also eat chimpanzee


Do chimpanzees sleep?

Chimpanzees sleep because they are just like humans. They are closer to humans than any other animal!!


What predators eat chimpanzees?

Only humans are main predators when they rarely hunt or kill them rarely do other animals kill them.


What is the difference between primates and chimpanzees?

All chimpanzees are primates but not all primates are chimpanzees. Humans, for instance, are primates.


Are chimpanzee's apes or monkeys?

chimpanzees are monkeys no, chimpanzees are apes and not monkeys


What eats chimpanzees?

Humans eat chimpanzees pie in some areas of the world, though this is illegal. Not much else has ever been observed eating chimpanzees. On rare occasions, chimps are cannibalistic, particularly after they kill an unrelated infant chimpanzee. Leopards probably eat chimpanzees when they (very rarely) get a chance--this is why chimpanzees sleep in nests up in the canopy.


True or false Biologists believe that humans descended from chimpanzees?

False. Biologists do not believe that humans descended directly from chimpanzees. Instead, both humans and chimpanzees share a common ancestor from millions of years ago.


What is the extent of genetic similarity between humans and chimpanzees?

Humans and chimpanzees share about 98.7 of their DNA, making them very genetically similar.