Baby chimpanzees like to free fall through trees

Baby chimpanzees like to free fall through trees

Given the many similarities between humans and chimpanzees, one might assume that  both species similarly engage in risky behavior within the same age range. For humans, that’s obviously adolescence. However, according to a study recently published in the journal iScience, it turns out that in chimps, it’s the infants you have to watch out for. After studying videos of 119 wild chimpanzees, researchers found that chimpanzees’ risky behavior peak…