Digger's Den:'Hippy'monkey is a killer when starved of sex - life - 04 July 2009 - New Scientist »
Posted By Fi5herman 4 months, 1 week ago in NewsDEEP in the Atlantic forests of Brazil lives the muriqui - the world's most peaceful and egalitarian primate. Or is it? The cuddly reputation of the "hippy monkey" has taken a battering after a gang of six were spotted attacking and killing an adult male.
The victim, an old male, died an hour after receiving savage bites to his face, body and genitals. The observations, published this week in the American Journal of Primatology (DOI: 10.1002/ajp.20713), show how lifestyles may dramatically alter the behaviour of a species.
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