Hippies caught engaging in cannibalism
So much for the "hippy chimp".
Wait...this is about monkeys?
Bonobos, known for their peaceable ways and casual sex,
They're hippies, all right.
have been caught in the act of cannibalism.
But they're monkeys.
An account of a group of wild bonobos consuming a dead infant, published last month, is the first report of cannibalism in these animals making the species the last of the great apes to reveal a taste for the flesh of their own kind.
Daggone it, that headline--you had me expecting lurid descriptions of patchouli-scented long-haired freaky people consuming each other in a drug-fueled orgy of carnage. Instead, it's just monkeys. Wotta gyp!
Posted by: Mike 2010-02-02 |