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Know Thyself 3: Primate, Protohuman , and Prehistoric Cannibalism

The History of Being Human

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The Effects of Stress on Orangutan Behavior

In 2009, two Sumatran orangutan females consumed their dead infants. This is very interesting because cannibalism was only noted to be practiced on infant chimpanzee examples. Now everybody's favorite, sexy, hippy apes, the bonobos have now been caught in the act of cannibalism.

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