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The form of exploitation in non-human primates most attributable to adult females is when non-lactating females take an infant from its mother (allomothering) and forcibly retain it until starvation. This behavior is known as the "aunting to death" phenomenon; these non-lactating female primates gain mothering-like experience, yet lack the ...
In 2021, a US-based private “monkey haters” online group, where members paid to have baby monkeys tortured and killed on camera in Indonesia was closed down, but other extreme videos have ...
A baby monkey struggles and squirms as it tries to escape the man holding it by the neck over a concrete cistern, repeatedly dousing it with water. In another video clip, a person plays with the ...
Furthermore, it is prevalent in spider monkeys, [1] wild Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus) and many other primates. [11] In basically all major primate taxa, aggression is used by the dominant males when herding females and keeping them away from other males. [1] In hamadryas baboons, the males often bite the females' necks and threaten them. [12]
In other cases, infants may be kidnapped and receive life-threatening bites or hits from a supposed-alloparent. [25] Little allomaternal care has been observed in cercopithecine old world monkeys and great apes. However, some cercopithecine species including vervet monkeys, patats monkeys, and talapoins exhibit high levels of allomaternal care.
A critically endangered monkey recently gave birth to three tiny triplets at a Kansas zoo.. The “precious” cotton-top tamarin babies were born to mother Kasasa and father Hotlips on Oct. 27 ...
Much of Harlow's scientific career was spent studying maternal bonding, what he described as the "nature of love".These experiments involved rearing newborn "total isolates" and monkeys with surrogate mothers, ranging from toweling-covered cones to a machine that modeled abusive mothers by assaulting the baby monkeys with cold air or spikes.
This monkey, called Britches (born March 1985), was a stump-tailed macaque who was born into a breeding colony at UCR. He was removed from his mother at birth, had his eyelids sewn shut, and had an electronic sonar device attached to his head—a Trisensor Aid, an experimental version of a blind travel aid, the Sonicguide—as part of a three ...