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

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.



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.

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;

Activity was fairly typical as they moved along, with pauses to look for food, a quick grooming and even a hurried coupling in the middle of the road by one pair - but nothing exceptional. Certainly none of them paid any attention to the one carrying the dead baby.

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 !!!!! ;)

wolf wrote:

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

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...


[SIZE="1"]OK. I just grossed myself out.[/SIZE]

dar512 wrote:

Spoiled meat just doesn't have the same effect.

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.

zippyt wrote:

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

SEMPER FI. Now getting back to the recipe.......

Seriously, tho this image hits a soft spot in me because of the instinctive bond. How can one match a mother's love? In her mind she feels like: "I love my child more than anything. Even if it IS dead." The homosapiens have certainly waned in their instinctive values. Great image. Deep topic. Thank you.

When I was younger I was ghost-writing a book for a guy who was in Air America, the Pentagon pulled-it after a while.
But, he said when they were training in Panama they used to make blanks with their rounds and put their cleaning rods on them and shoot howler monkeys with them and eat them, was a staple in the jungle. At least that was his story... but he said a lot of things.