This is shocking really. It is sad. Surely this is a breakdown in the human-animal relationship? It was brought on by the Covid pandemic as there are no tourists to feed the monkeys and so they starve. Then there is a mad rush to a source of food when it appears.

Chimpanzees treat cuts with the haemolymph inside insects
NEWS AND COMMENT: Researchers have discovered that chimpanzees in Gabon, Africa, treat each other with the fluid inside an unknown ...
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Chimpanzees have the social skills to benefit from cumulative culture
What is cumulative culture? The best ways to describe it is to refer to the way that chimpanzees from Bossou, ...
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Woman has love affair with zoo chimp and is banned
NEWS AND COMMENT-ANTWERP, BELGIUM: This is a story which turns on the question as to whether a human can have ...
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Extraordinary photograph of dying female mountain gorilla in the arms of her human caregiver
This is Ndakasi with her caretaker and lifelong friend Andre Bauma, a park ranger who cared for her. I don't ...
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Grieving apes carry their dead infants
The picture on this page shows a baboon carrying her long dead infant. It is unsettling but it is also ...
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Do non-human animals have culture?
Unquestionably, non-human animals do, indeed, have culture. It is another example of an erosion of the concept of human exceptionalism ...
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