6/20/2006: Baboon mother keeps dead offspring's body

xoB finds this gruesome item, via the site mentioned on the images, proof that sometimes nature's wires just get hopelessly crossed. This baboon mother's baby died, but the strong maternal bond did not; and so she keeps the body with her, even though it's now almost completely decomposed.



It seems to me that most animals recognize death and the, uh, filthy, disease-causing problems of having a decaying corpse around. But as a non-mom, a non-breeder entirely actually, I can't imagine the maternal bond and how it apparently goes beyond emotion... built-in, as it obviously is.

That may be the grossest thing ever... worse than a necklace of ears.

Weirdness is Universal.

Eww.

An ear necklace? (luckily GIS didn't show me anything)

I have a friend just back from Nigeria who says the baboons on Victoria Island have started going into the houses and raiding the refrigerators.

Striking back from habitat destruction.!

From the link;

This could be a first for The Cellar. No recipes for braised monkey?

first you get a flame thrower ,,,,,,

Don't all Marine Corps recipes start that way?

Oh Wolf , You Know us SOOO well !!!!!

Those ribs don't have enough meat left to bother with. Maybe if the picture had been taken a few weeks ago...


OK. I just grossed myself out.

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Originally Posted by zippyt Oh Wolf , You Know us SOOO well !!!!!

When I was younger I was ghost-writing a book for a guy who was in Air America, the Pentagon pulled-it after a while.
But, he said when they were training in Panama they used to make blanks with their rounds and put their cleaning rods on them and shoot howler monkeys with them and eat them, was a staple in the jungle. At least that was his story... but he said a lot of things.