Savanna chimpanzees suffer from heat stress

(Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology) An international team of scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, has studied the physiological parameters of savanna and rainforest chimpanzees and compared their water and energy budgets as well as their stress levels. They found that the stress of maintaining their body temperature is a tremendous burden on chimpanzees living in the savanna.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news