Presentation on African Chimpanzees at UIndy

An anthropologist who is making headlines with her pioneering studies of African primates will speak on 28 March at the University of Indianapolis.

Jill Pruetz (right) shattered preconceptions about animal intelligence by documenting a group of chimpanzees in Senegal that use deliberately sharpened sticks to spear small mammals hiding in tree hollows, according to UIndy. Before she and a colleague published their observations last year, the use of tools to hunt vertebrate animals was thought to be an exclusively human ability.

An associate professor of anthropology at Iowa State University, Pruetz will discuss her work in a free public presentation at 7 p.m. 28 March in UIndy’s Ransburg Auditorium, 1400 East Hanna Avenue, Indianapolis.