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Monday, November 23, 2009

Photo: Chimps Use Caves to Beat the Heat, Scientists Find


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A male chimpanzee in Senegal emerges from between two boulders after visiting a water hole. The chimp was part of a group found by scientists to use caves to escape summer heat, the first time apes have been found to use such shelter in the wild.

Photograph by Maja Gaspersic, courtesy J. Pruetz