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Why avoid 'it's natural' or 'animals do it' justifications? This. (primate community)

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Adorable monkeys documented in act of cannibalism and infanticide
https://www.livescience.com/first-white-...alism.html

EXCERPT: A 10-day-old monkey, known as CT-19, fell to the ground [...] A 2-year-old male approached the scene and began nibbling at the dead monkey's foot, chomping on its toes. "Though CT [its mother] made no attempt to retrieve the corpse, she remained close by and vigilant," the authors wrote. An alpha female, age 23, then drew the body away from the young male and gnawed at the corpse in earnest, starting with the left foot; after half an hour, the female had consumed the infant's entire lower half, leaving only the head, chest and arms.

The juvenile male managed to steal off with a bit of tail during this feast, but otherwise, the alpha female gobbled up most of CT-19. Technically, the male was a second cousin of CT-19, and the alpha female was the infant's grandaunt, the authors wrote.

Prior to this young capuchin's demise, only eight cases of cannibalism had been observed in Central and South American primates, the authors noted. Among primates, in general, the rare cases of cannibalism tend to coinicide with infanticide committed by unrelated adults. In other cases, closely related individuals may consume an infant after its natural death. In this case, there is reason to believe that CT-19 was a victim of infanticide, the authors wrote... (MORE - details)

Not a video of the above incident

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/tEpUDKY4zXI
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