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Hippy apes caught cannibalising their young
newscientist.com ^ | Feb. 1, 2010 | Ewen Callaway

Posted on 02/01/2010 7:09:36 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY

So much for the "hippy chimp". Bonobos, known for their peaceable ways and casual sex, have been caught in the act of cannibalism.

An account of a group of wild bonobos consuming a dead infant, published last month, is the first report of cannibalism in these animals – making the species the last of the great apes to reveal a taste for the flesh of their own kind.

The account comes from a group of primatologists led by Gottfried Hohmann of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. The team has studied bonobos in the wild at a site in Salonga national park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on hundreds of days since 2002. Few were more eventful than 9 and 10 July, 2008.

Early on the morning of 9 July, Andrew Fowler spotted an ape known as Olga with her two daughters: 5 or 6-year-old Ophelia, and Olivia, who was three years her junior. "By 8 o'clock Olivia was dead," says Fowler. She showed no obvious traces of blood or bruises, so it seems unlikely she had been killed by other members of her group. Decomposing corpse

Fowler's team lost sight of the apes not long afterwards, but early the following day he saw Olga join them carrying Olivia's body, which had already begun to decompose. "It was smelling, limp and wet," he recalls. Olga and seven others spent the rest of the day devouring the corpse.

"We've never seen anything like this," says Vanessa Woods at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, who studies semi-captive bonobos at a reserve. "The last time I saw an infant die, the mother held onto it for days and the keepers had trouble taking the body away."

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1 posted on 02/01/2010 7:09:37 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY

That is exactly what comes from free sex hippies.


2 posted on 02/01/2010 7:11:25 PM PST by GeronL (http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Yeah, ain’t that a surprise.


3 posted on 02/01/2010 7:12:00 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Bush’s fault?


4 posted on 02/01/2010 7:12:03 PM PST by Alistair Stratford IV (Keep calm and carry on)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Democrats do the same thing.


5 posted on 02/01/2010 7:12:26 PM PST by Cacique (quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
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To: Cacique

6 posted on 02/01/2010 7:14:18 PM PST by Alistair Stratford IV (Keep calm and carry on)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
So the Hippy lifestyle eventually devolves into cannibalism.

I can buy that.

7 posted on 02/01/2010 7:15:02 PM PST by MAexile (Bats left, votes right)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

You don’t have to go very far back in history to find the “at one with nature” crowd practicing cannibalism. So maybe this is something we should aspire to? Eh greenpiece?


8 posted on 02/01/2010 7:16:13 PM PST by mamelukesabre (Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
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To: MAexile
That's not all.

Rogue monkey accused of attempted rapes
An elderly woman is reported to have died of shock after the monkey jumped on her.


Monkeys need to be regulated and laws need to be passed to protect the public.

9 posted on 02/01/2010 7:26:22 PM PST by MaxMax (Lets get a sense)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Animals are animals no matter how much we humanize them.


10 posted on 02/01/2010 7:27:52 PM PST by netmilsmom (I am Ilk)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Sound like what the hippies are doing to us.


11 posted on 02/01/2010 7:30:50 PM PST by imskylark
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12 posted on 02/01/2010 7:42:01 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Happy New Year! Freedom is Priceless.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Global warming caused this,dontcha know.


13 posted on 02/01/2010 7:44:02 PM PST by Nooseman (--mart)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Free “love” sex/sadistic treatment of infants.

Seems there is a liberal connection there doesn’t there. We should study their brains.


14 posted on 02/01/2010 7:45:42 PM PST by autumnraine (You can't fix stupid, but you can vote it out!)
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To: GeronL

Maybe mom was just waitin on the nosy people to clear out first?


15 posted on 02/01/2010 7:46:49 PM PST by Nooseman (--mart)
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You wan to hear the world's ultimate story about monkeys?
16 posted on 02/01/2010 8:03:20 PM PST by wendy1946
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Party on dude..
17 posted on 02/01/2010 8:04:38 PM PST by GSP.FAN (These are the times that try men's souls.)
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To: nmh

Obviously, the fault can be placed squarely upon the Bush administration.


19 posted on 02/01/2010 8:45:55 PM PST by JmyBryan
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To: SunkenCiv
C'mere ya big ape.


20 posted on 02/02/2010 10:05:04 AM PST by colorado tanker
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