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Zoologists recently embarked on an African expedition forests, made an interesting discovery. Experts have found that free-living monkeys actively hunt bats here. Apparently, bats meat is real for primates a delicacy, and tailed hunters are ready to spend in daylight days many hours searching for peacefully sleeping in the crowns of trees booty.
Ebola hemorrhagic fever, about which with For some time now, the whole world spoke in fear of a new global epidemic, originated among bats, and so far has been it is not clear how it subsequently spread to primates, including number per person. Now researchers are convinced that everything is to blame they are carnivorous monkeys devouring sick bats. Locals, in turn, eat these animals, becoming infected deadly virus.
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Visiting Tanzania and Kenya, scientists were surprised to notice that blue monkeys from time to time grab sleeping trees on the trees mice and eat them, gnawing meat to the bones. Persistence and primacy patience with such a hunt suggests that bats – a great delicacy for them. The local species of bats prefers to sleep during the day, not in caves and rock crevices, but directly on the branches tall trees. Monkeys can spend many hours every day, carefully searching the crowns for a favorite treat.
In Africa, as you know, monkeys are hunted with meat. Carcasses primates, including monkeys, can be found on many of these markets. Infecting Marburg fever, Ebola and others terrible diseases, four-armed begin to represent a large danger for lovers of monkey dishes.
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In addition, primates tend to try fruits in forests taste, looking for the most ripe. When the monkey doesn’t like the fruit, she leaves him hanging in a tree, stained in her saliva. Merchants pluck these fruits in the future and sell them. If a primate, slobbering any of them, was sick then high odds someone with this fever also gets infected the fruit will eat. In a word, even the most strict african vegetarians. Fortunately, we are not threatens, since all the fruits exported from Africa to Russia, grown on plantations that are strictly protected from monkeys.
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Observations of zoologists have shown that if a blue monkey notices a bat on a tree, then in eighty-five cases out of a hundred will be able to catch the victim. Bats sometimes break out of their arms predators and try to fly away, however the monkeys re-rush for prey with warlike cries. Primates demonstrate real ferocity and bloodthirstiness.
It is noteworthy that such a diet is unnatural for wild monkeys. Scientists suggest that four-armed negatively influenced by a man who periodically leaves meat leftovers in the forest. Monkeys are addicted to animal food and began to hunt on their own, choosing bats as their main prey, whose diseases until this time were not inherent in primates.
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