Recently I stumbled across a program on Animal Planet (a cable tv station) and they were talking about Baboons. The voice over explained that when, generations and generations ago, baboons moved out on to the grassy plains, they discovered they couldn't digest the many kinds of grass seeds available and thus they had to enlarge their diet to include meat. The program showed a baboon hunting down a baby gazelle, catching it, and subsequently eating it. The baboon's dexterous fingers were pointed out as assisting the animal in making good use of this portion of its diet. I've also heard on similar programs of other ape species eating monkeys if they can catch them. On "The Keepers" program last night (a show about the San Diego Zoo, also on Animal Planet), they showed the Bonobo chimps the zoo cares for. They looked surprisingly human (slender, walking upright frequently, very intelligent), more so than the chimps (orangutans, spider monkeys, or lemurs, all also intelligent) on Monkey Business, my favorite program, which ran just previous to The Keepers. Note they all have skilled hands and sharp teeth. Debby [log in to unmask]