6/20/2006: Baboon mother keeps dead offspring's body
 

http://cellar.org/2006/babmother1.jpg

xoB finds this gruesome item, via the site mentioned on the images, proof that sometimes nature's wires just get hopelessly crossed. This baboon mother's baby died, but the strong maternal bond did not; and so she keeps the body with her, even though it's now almost completely decomposed.

http://cellar.org/2006/babmother4.jpg

It seems to me that most animals recognize death and the, uh, filthy, disease-causing problems of having a decaying corpse around. But as a non-mom, a non-breeder entirely actually, I can't imagine the maternal bond and how it apparently goes beyond emotion... built-in, as it obviously is.

Is she a lesbian?

That may be the grossest thing ever... worse than a necklace of ears.

Weirdness is Universal.

Eww.

An ear necklace? (luckily GIS didn't show me anything)

I have a friend just back from Nigeria who says the baboons on Victoria Island have started going into the houses and raiding the refrigerators.

Striking back from habitat destruction.!

From the link; The rest of the troop must recognize it as her offspring, or at least her property, and not food or they would be looking for a share. :confused:

This could be a first for The Cellar. No recipes for braised monkey?

first you get a flame thrower ,,,,,,

Don't all Marine Corps recipes start that way?

Oh Wolf , You Know us SOOO well !!!!! ;)

Spoiled meat just doesn't have the same effect.

Those ribs don't have enough meat left to bother with. Maybe if the picture had been taken a few weeks ago...


OK. I just grossed myself out.

How about cooking up momma baboon, though, yum, yum. :yum:

In the second picture, the dead baby looks more like the alien from Alien. Don't get too close - it might suck onto your face and incubate in your abdomen.