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Grandmother chimp's baby-snatching shows 'we still have a lot to learn'

November 13, 2006

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GOMBE NATIONAL PARK, Tanzania — One recent night, in the cabin Jane Goodall uses when she returns to the park where her work began, researchers discussed a new and astonishing finding: An older female chimp had recently taken her daughter’s newborn and was raising it as her own. (Full article: 196 words)

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