Saturday 24 July 2021

Chimpanzees kill their albino chimp

 


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.