Labels:bulletin board | reckoner OCR: When chimpanzees in Uganda arrive ata grove of fruit trees they often discover that the efficient local monkeys are already speedily stripping the trees of edible fruit The chimps can turn to termite fishing or perhaps catch monkey and eat it but in practice their population iS severely limited by that competition despite brain twice the size of their specialist rivals' Whether versatility is advantageous depends on the timescales: for both the modern traveler and the evolving ape it is how fast the weather changes and how long the trip lasts Paleoclimatologists have discovered that many parts of the earth suffer sudder climate changes, as abrupt in onset asa decade long drought but lasting for centuries . climatic flip that eliminated fruit trees would be disastrous for many monkey specie ...
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