What is their diet in the wild?


Jane Goodall (1986), the most well known and respected chimpanzee researcher, gives a two-year-average chimp diet based on time invested in various items.



% time feeding


Fruit: 59.5


Leaves: 21.4


Blossoms: 4.1


Seeds: 5.0

 
Insects: 4.1


Meat: 1.4

Galls: 0.8


Misc.: 4

Goodall, Jane, The Chimpanzees of Gombe, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA (1986), p. 233

It is interesting to note that the Chimpanzee eats some animal food.