grieving ape eats her own dead decaying baby

humy

Science

01 Oct 17

humy

Joined: 06 Mar 12
Moves: 642

01 Oct 17

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At least for me, this incident is both totally heartbreaking and extremely sad and totally weird and disturbing all at the same time;

https://phys.org/news/2017-09-female-macaque-italian-sanctuary-ate.html

I wonder why seeing her own reflection was what set her off?
There has to be a reason for that.
What was going on there in her mind when she saw her own reflection?

mchill

Cryptic

Behind the scenes

Joined: 27 Jun 16
Moves: 3283

01 Oct 17

Originally posted by @humy
At least for me, this incident is both totally heartbreaking and extremely sad and totally weird and disturbing all at the same time;

https://phys.org/news/2017-09-female-macaque-italian-sanctuary-ate.html

I wonder why seeing here own reflection was what set her off?
There has to be a reason for that.
What was going on there in her mind when she saw her own reflection?

This is just a little too much information as I sit here eating my breakfast sandwich. 😞

FabianFnas

Joined: 11 Nov 05
Moves: 43938

01 Oct 17

Originally posted by @humy
At least for me, this incident is both totally heartbreaking and extremely sad and totally weird and disturbing all at the same time;

https://phys.org/news/2017-09-female-macaque-italian-sanctuary-ate.html

I wonder why seeing her own reflection was what set her off?
There has to be a reason for that.
What was going on there in her mind when she saw her own reflection?

When your own child dies, it's easy to go ape.