Scientists find monkeys who know how to fish

by sweet east pearl | June 11, 2008 at 09:58 pm
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Scientists find monkeys who know how to fish

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In several countries in Asia , this long-tailed macaque monkeys have been consumed by people who believe by eating some of their organ will get special health benefit. These people scoop the brain out of monkey skull and eat them immediately. It has to be done  before the monkey dies. It's so horrible...

BANGKOK - Long-tailed macaque monkeys have a reputation for knowing how to find food - whether it be grabbing fruit from jungle trees or snatching a banana from a startled tourist.

Now, researchers say they have discovered groups of the silver-haired monkeys in Indonesia that fish.

Groups of long-tailed macaques were observed four times over the past eight years scooping up small fish with their hands and eating them along rivers in East Kalimantan and North Sumatra provinces, according to researchers from The Nature Conservancy and the Great Ape Trust.

The species had been known to eat fruit and forage for crabs and insects, but never before fish from rivers.

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at 23:53 on June 21st, 2008

sweet east pearl, I like this story. It's good stuff.

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at 01:33 on June 22nd, 2008

sweet east pearl, I like this story. It's good stuff.


It Just goes to show, monkeys are not given the respect they deserve, here in the UK, advertisers dress them up and get them to make a cup of tea.

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