A monkey's taste for chameleon salad?

[kinyonga]

“Our interest was therefore piqued when we observed a golden monkey in Gishwati consume a squirrel, and saw another individual chewing on a mix of chameleon and leaves in Rwanda's Volcanoes National Park.”…
https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/fee.2121

 

[Beman]

 

[kinyonga]

One more…

 

[Beman]

I feel like this thread needs a warning label.

 

[elizaann2]

Super sad.

 

[Steve A]

With all due respect to nature, I hope that monkey has diarrhea for a week after eating that poor chameleon

 

[Steve A]

I feel like this thread needs a warning label.

seriously my heart sank lmao but I get it. Nature is gonna nature.

 

[Beman]

seriously my heart sank lmao but I get it. Nature is gonna nature.

This is why I do not watch animal planet.... "As the lioness stalks the unsuspecting baby gazelle." Yep nope hard pass.

 

[Steve A]

This is why I do not watch animal planet.... "As the lioness stalks the unsuspecting baby gazelle." Yep nope hard pass.

See I am an idiot. I LOVE watching Animal Planet. I love nature and all it has to offer.

But I am such a softy for those poor animals that it still upsets me. I understand it. It's nature. But I'm right with you with the poor animals that end up as food.

But..........I can't help myself from watching

 

[Beman]

See I am an idiot. I LOVE watching Animal Planet. I love nature and all it has to offer.

But I am such a softy for those poor animals that it still upsets me. I understand it. It's nature. But I'm right with you with the poor animals that end up as food.

But..........I can't help myself from watching

If it is Shark week I am all about it... But something about lions killing the babies that gets me.

 

[Steve A]

If it is Shark week I am all about it... But something about lions killing the babies that gets me.

I agree with you there. The Lions specifically preying is difficult to watch.

 

[kinyonga]

I particularly don’t like the hyena kills. Many other animals take the prey down as humanely as possible…still not painless im sure though.

Doesn’t anyone feel bad peeling carrots or potatoes or chopping up veggies. How about trimming trees or grass or flowers.

 

[MissSkittles]

Farking monkeys!

 

[Beman]

Farking monkeys!

 

[kinyonga]

“New Study: Plants Know When They Are Being Eaten”….
https://wanderlust.com/journal/new-study-illustrates-plants-know-when-they-are-being-eaten/

“Research scientists at Baylor Medical Center have proven that plants, including vegetables, feel pain when subjected to trauma such as being yanked out of the ground, peeled, cooked, and eaten”. "Veggies and plants initiate a massive hormone and chemical barrage internally when they suffer any kind of injury," …
https://www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,,-83446,00.html#:~:text=Plants do not feel pain,Same for plants.

“In his opinion, it is conceivable that all plants might be able to see.”…
https://nautil.us/plants-feel-pain-and-might-even-see-238257/

 

[Beman]

I particularly don’t like the hyena kills. Many other animals take the prey down as humanely as possible…still not painless im sure though.

Doesn’t anyone feel bad peeling carrots or potatoes or chopping up veggies. How about trimming trees or grass or flowers.

I talk to my plants and flowers that is about the extent of that though.

 

[Motherlode Chameleon]

I am not fond of viewing the posted pictures of a chameleon being eaten. However "it is what it is" the cycle of life is natures way. Hawks, Ealges, and Snakes reportedly prey on chameleons from time to time.

Best Regards
Jeremy A. Rich

 

[kinyonga]

One more interesting site…
“According to researchers at the Institute for Applied Physics at the University of Bonn in Germany, plants release gases that are the equivalent of crying out in pain. Using a laser-powered microphone, researchers have picked up sound waves produced by plants releasing gases when cut or injured.”…

https://science.howstuffworks.com/life/botany/plants-feel-pain.htm