Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Time Magazine Cover: Surprising Science of Animal Friendships
Article: Since 1995, John Mitani, a primatologist at the University of Michigan, has been going to Uganda to study 160 chimpanzees that live in the forests of Kibale National Park. Seventeen years is a long time to spend watching wild animals, and after a while it's rare to see truly new behavior. That's why Mitani loves to tell the tale of a pair of older males in the Kibale group whom the researchers named Hare and Ellington. Hare and Ellington weren't related, yet when they went on hunting trips with other males, they'd share prey with each other rather than compete for...Read the article (requires subscription), Explore rest of this issue and look for it on your newsstand.