Joel Kontinen
Image courtesy of Maël Leroux / Leroux et al. American
Journal of Primatology 2021,
Researchers have found an
albino chimp in Uganda that met a dreadful end. It was killed by its mother and
another chimps.
It
is ,doubful it the chimps took the albino for “the chimp's white
coloration also somewhat resembled that of black and white colobus monkeys (Colobus guereza), which chimps in the reserve prey
upon; the infant's "prey-like" color, combined with its chimp-like
smell and appearance, ‘could explain the behavior of some of the individuals
towards the infant.’"
In any case, chimps
don’t deserve our praise, they look like humans, but the fall of man spread also in the animal world,
Albinos are a produce of the The Fall of mankind.
Source:
Lanese Nicoletta, 2021.Albino
chimp baby murdered by its elders days after rare sighting Live Science 22 July.
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