Orangutans hunting other primates is extremely rare behavior, scientists say.
He spotted it on some lower vegetation and moved down towards it. He then moved back up, potentially to get another look at it."[He] then went back down and just broke the branch off that it was clinging to," study author Erin Vogel, from the State University of New Jersey, told."This was unique and very exciting. Then he bit the neck while holding the body of the loris to kill it."The orangutan ate the slow loris' head first.
Vogel said she doesn't think a lack of food drove the Borneon orangutan to kill and eat the slow loris."This was not a low fruit period and we do not think this orangutan was systematically searching for meat," she said."Meat-eating by orangutans is very rare. We have not observed them to hunt or eat other primates. Thus, lorises are the only other primates that orangutans have been observed to eat. And slow-loris consumption is rare in both Bornean and Sumatran orangutans.
"I always say 'absence of evidence is not evidence of absence' in behavioral data collection," she said. The team had not been systematically searching for this behavior and they did not observe the orangutans at night, so it is unclear exactly how often slow lorises and orangutans encounter one another.
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