The little guy to the left never saw it coming. Frank brings you a gory tale of survival in Senegal, where American researchers recently observed chimps in the Fongoli region engaging in a very human-like behavior: hunting prey with primitive spears. When female and juvenile chimps get hungry after relinquishing good meat to full-grown males, they gnaw sturdy sticks to a fine point and jab them into tree hollows hoping to pull back an impaled bushbaby. Barbarity, or innovation? You decide. Make sure to peep the embedded videos.

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