Wednesday, June 21, 2006

Monkeys are funny

The pictures are graphic so don't click the link if you are eating:
This powerful maternal instinct in non-human Primates is evidently well-documented. I witnessed an example on a recent visit to South Africa's Kruger National Park. In this case it was a Chacma baboon carrying the remains of a dead infant on its back, refusing to part with its baby in spite of the advanced state of decomposition.
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