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

Undertoad · 06-20-2006, 11:22 AM

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.

anonymous · 06-20-2006, 11:30 AM

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I can't imagine the maternal bond and how it apparently goes beyond emotion... built-in, as it obviously is.

Is she a lesbian?

floatingk · 06-20-2006, 11:54 AM

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

Trilby · 06-20-2006, 12:42 PM

Weirdness is Universal.

glatt · 06-20-2006, 01:04 PM

Eww.

Emrikol · 06-20-2006, 01:06 PM

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

Karenv · 06-20-2006, 03:05 PM

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.!

xoxoxoBruce · 06-20-2006, 05:11 PM

From the link;

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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.

wolf · 06-20-2006, 09:04 PM

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

zippyt · 06-20-2006, 09:47 PM

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

wolf · 06-20-2006, 10:01 PM

Don't all Marine Corps recipes start that way?

zippyt · 06-20-2006, 10:47 PM

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

dar512 · 06-21-2006, 08:53 AM

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Originally Posted by wolf

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

Spoiled meat just doesn't have the same effect.

LabRat · 06-21-2006, 09:18 AM

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.

Spexxvet · 06-21-2006, 11:00 AM

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Originally Posted by dar512

Spoiled meat just doesn't have the same effect.

How about cooking up momma baboon, though, 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.

06-20-2006, 11:22 AM	#1
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	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.

06-20-2006, 12:42 PM	#4
Trilby Slattern of the Swail Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 15,654	Weirdness is Universal. __________________ In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic. "Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her. —James Barrie Wimminfolk they be tricksy. - ZenGum

06-20-2006, 09:04 PM	#9
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	This could be a first for The Cellar. No recipes for braised monkey? __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

06-20-2006, 09:47 PM	#10
zippyt LONG LIVE KING ZIPPY! per Feetz Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Arkansas Posts: 7,661	first you get a flame thrower ,,,,,, __________________ "Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. " Brother Dave Gardner

06-20-2006, 10:01 PM	#11
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	Don't all Marine Corps recipes start that way? __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

06-20-2006, 11:54 AM	#3
floatingk The desert SW sucks.... Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 36	That may be the grossest thing ever... worse than a necklace of ears.

06-20-2006, 01:04 PM	#5
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Eww.

06-20-2006, 01:06 PM	#6
Emrikol Compatriot-at-Arms Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 107	An ear necklace? (luckily GIS didn't show me anything)

06-20-2006, 03:05 PM	#7
Karenv Slacker Join Date: May 2004 Location: Brooklyn, NY Posts: 144	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.!

06-20-2006, 10:47 PM	#12
zippyt LONG LIVE KING ZIPPY! per Feetz Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Arkansas Posts: 7,661	Oh Wolf , You Know us SOOO well !!!!! __________________ "Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. " Brother Dave Gardner

06-21-2006, 09:18 AM	#14
LabRat twatfaced two legged bumhole Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 3,143	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. __________________ Strength does not come from how much weight you can lift, or how many miles you can run. It comes from knowing that you set a goal, and rose to the challenge. Strength comes from within.

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