Nerdy Science Blog

Despite the scene of macaque monkey raping a cat witnessed by one of the authors here, Indonesian long-tailed macaques were observed for catching fishes along the rivers by researchers from The Nature Conservancy and the Great Ape Trust.  The findings of fishing macaques was published in last month’s International Journal of Primatology.  Researchers said the phenomenon showed that monkeys changed its food source to fish in order to adapt the changing environment.  Long-tailed macaques were not the only monkey species observed for fishing.  The fishing behaviour was also found in Japanese macaques, chacma baboons, olive baboons, chimpanzees and orangutans.  Other scientists doubt the observations were only isolated events.

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