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https://www.businessinsider.com/wild-monkeys-do-not-eat-bananas-2016-6#:~:text=Wild monkeys don't eat,cultivated domesticated plant and fruit.

 

Wild monkeys don't eat them.

 

"The entire wild monkey-banana connection in fact is total fabrication," Katharine Milton, who has studied the diets of primates for decades, told Tech Insider. "The edible banana is a cultivated domesticated plant and fruit. Wild monkeys never encounter bananas at all ever unless they are around human habitation where bananas are or have been planted."

Monkeys do eat fruits, but they wouldn't encounter bananas like we could get at the grocery store in the forest. They also eat leaves, flowers, nuts, and insects in the wild.

 

A zoo in England even decided to stop feeding its monkeys bananas, because they're too sugary.

 

Monkeys do enjoy bananas. A study from 1936 even offered monkeys fruits, vegetables, nuts, and bread to see what they would choose to eat more of. Bananas ranked right behind grapes; nuts and bread were last.

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and yet i do :giraffe:

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Riveting discovery 

 

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The monkeys want the nanners 

 

 

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oh wow

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I like them 

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Can we eat monkeys? 

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Just now, Pheromosa said:

Can we eat monkeys? 

You can eat anything if you’re brave enough. 

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these has been known for centuries, monkeys only use them to train their gag reflex 

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I thought this was well known... bananas aren't even grown in all the countries that have native monkey populations 

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Everything is a lie.  I bet people don’t actually slip and fall on banana peels either.  

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12 minutes ago, James_Joint said:

Everything is a lie.  I bet people don’t actually slip and fall on banana peels either.  

That was one of the last things I witnessed happen before I stopped working in a grocery store. :eli:

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2 hours ago, DamianSolo said:

That was one of the last things I witnessed happen before I stopped working in a grocery store. :eli:

Sounds like a highlight to go out with :smile:

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shocking

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8 hours ago, Pheromosa said:

Can we eat monkeys? 

we're not ready for another PADAMic that's not caused by the international global summer smash PADAM PADAM 

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53 minutes ago, James_Joint said:

Sounds like a highlight to go out with :smile:

It was more so annoying having to deal with the accident report and all of the following up; there was still a sense of amusement involved, though, naturally. 200w.gif

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Gorillas outsold

 

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well I didn't know that

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