Full article: Coping with mortality: responses of monkeys and …
2021年3月21日 · Early scientific observations of responses to death in non-human primates (hereafter referred to as primates) have been interpreted in the same way. Yerkes (1915) described the carrying of a stillborn child for weeks by a female macaque (Macaca sp.) as the result of maternal instinct.
Behavior of Mothers after Infant Loss in Bonnet Macaques
2023年9月11日 · Our results suggest that female bonnet macaques react to deaths of their infants in a manner that is consistent with the interpretation of grief in humans and other primates.
Mother Monkey Eats Mummified Baby in 'Astonishing' Case
2017年9月25日 · Researchers studying macaques at the Parco Faunistico di Piano dell’Abatino animal sanctuary observed a new mother named Evalyne "caring" for her deceased infant for weeks, and then consuming its...
Behavioral responses to injury and death in wild Barbary …
2016年5月18日 · Here, we report on the deaths of four Barbary macaques of differing sex- and age-classes resulting from impact with road vehicles. In two cases, the monkeys were mortally wounded and the death protracted, while in the two other cases, death was instant.
Behaviour of nonhuman primate mothers toward their dead …
2018年7月16日 · Behavioural responses to infant death: an adult female Japanese macaque holds and inspects her dead infant (a) and lays the infant-corpse on the ground while she forages (b); another female with gaze oriented toward her dead infant (c); a third adult female [8,9] holds/carries the mummified body of her infant 15 days after death (d) and ...
Prolonged transport and cannibalism of mummified infant …
2017年9月20日 · In this context, we report the case of a female Tonkean macaque (Macaca tonkeana) that transported the body of her dead infant for 25 days and cannibalized its mummified parts. The mother appeared agitated in the first 2 days after the birth. She then took care of her infant’s corpse, which progressively dried and became mummified.
Necrophilic behavior (attempted copulation with corpses) has been scarcely reported in non‐human primates, especially in the wild. Here is the first case of necrophilic behavior observed in wild...
Fatal leptospirosis in endangered Barbary macaques
2024年4月1日 · Between December 2020 and January 2021, an outbreak of acute mortality in endangered Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus) kept in captivity was detected in a zoo in Spain. The main findings observed in the two fatally affected animals at post-mortem evaluation were jaundice, renal tubular necrosis and interstitial nephritis.
Behavioral responses to injury and death in wild Barbary macaques ...
Here, we report on the behavioral responses of Barbary macaques, a social, non-human primate, to the deaths of four group members (one high-ranking adult female, one high-ranking adult male, one juvenile male, and one female infant), all caused by road traffic accidents.
What we know after 43 monkeys escaped a South Carolina …
2024年11月19日 · Forty-three rhesus macaque monkeys escaped from the research facility in Yemassee, South Carolina, and several are still running loose as authorities try to bait them back to the compound.