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Long-tailed macaque and her young eating a banana in Mauritius. Crab-eating macaques are omnivorous frugivores and eat fruits, leaves, flowers, shoots, roots, invertebrates, and small animals in variable quantities. [7] They eat durians, such as Durio graveolens and D. zibethinus, and are a major seed disperser for the latter species. [58]
In natural habitats, they have been observed to consume certain parts of over one hundred species of plants including the buds, fruit, young leaves, bark, roots, and flowers. When macaques live amongst people, they raid agricultural crops such as wheat, rice, or sugarcane; and garden crops like tomatoes, bananas, melons, mangos, or papayas. [11]
Monkey meat is the flesh and other edible parts derived from monkeys, a kind of bushmeat. Human consumption of monkey meat has been historically recorded in numerous parts of the world, including multiple Asian and African nations.
Apes and monkeys do this as well, and if anything, they’re the experts on how to efficiently peel bananas, though I have had it that friends called me an ape for peeling my bananas like this. #60
If eating the banana peel isn't your thing, there are plenty of other ways to recycle the banana's usable outer layer. The peels can be used to fertilize plants, tenderize meat, relieve rashes and ...
Photo: Getty The flesh of a traditional banana contains: 12% of your daily fiber, helping with digestion and lowering your risk of diabetes. 17% of your vitamin C, assisting with your immune ...
The banana fruits develop from the banana heart, in a large hanging cluster called a bunch, made up of around nine tiers called hands, with up to 20 fruits to a hand. A bunch can weigh 22–65 kilograms (49–143 lb). [10] The stalk ends of the fruits connect up to the rachis part of the inflorescence.
Muriquis are the largest extant New World monkeys. They can reach 4.3 feet or 1.3 metres long and weight up to 7 to 10 kilograms (15 to 22 lb). [ 4 ] The northern muriqui is a critically endangered species, it is estimated that there are less than 1000 mature individuals in the wild. [ 2 ]