Do Monkeys Keep Pets? Study Finds Widespread Primate Interactions With Other Animal Species, From Mice to Deer
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When a mouse wandered into the white-cheeked gibbons’ enclosure in the Shanghai Zoo, the monkeys didn’t try to eat it—or even chase it away. One female primate scooped up the rodent and gently held and caressed it.
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When a mouse wandered into the white-cheeked gibbons’ enclosure in the Shanghai Zoo, the monkeys didn’t try to eat it—or even chase it away. One female primate scooped up the rodent and gently held and caressed it. University of Oxford evolutionary biologist Cyril Grueter watched the interaction, and he was mystified. “I wasn’t quite sure what I was looking at,” he wrote in an article for the Conversation.
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- When a mouse wandered into the white-cheeked gibbons’ enclosure in the Shanghai Zoo, the monkeys didn’t try to eat it—or even chase it away. One female primate scooped up the rodent and gently held and caressed it.
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Do Monkeys Keep Pets? Study Finds Widespread Primate Interactions With Other Animal Species, From Mice to Deer
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