Jody eats a prickly pear fruit
June 6, 2019 by Anna -
Chimpanzees have prehensile lips which almost act as a second set of fingers. They come in handy for grasping and sorting out seeds from fruit. Here Jody demonstrates perfect technique!
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ha! I thought she was going to take forever, and then she just scooped them all up at once!
That’s a different kind of breakfast, huh?
Baseball players everywhere are jealous of those lips. So I am assuming in the end Jody ate the seeds after all or was she just going back to be sure she ate all the yummy stuff from the seeds?