did anyone else see Human Planet last night? The woman breastfeeding baby monkeys

[GoldenGreen]

Fascinating - the people in the rainforest hunt and eat adult monkeys, but there was a woman there who rescued the orphaned babies.

She was shown cuddling the monkeys and talking about them and it slowly became apparent that she was breastfeeding one.

I ended up deciding that I wouldn't breastfeed a monkey directly, but I'd express for it

WTF?!? I'm sorry but that's just weird

I thought it was quite sweet.

I liked the shot of the little monkey baby with milk over it's face.

They were orphaned cos the mothers were hunted. I thought it was quite nice how she said that she liked to eat monkeys but not the pet monkeys. The monkeys were so cute.

No weirder than giving a human baby cows' milk!

Less weird maybe...

BB, from an udder?

Actually, I think my DS would be in 7th heaven if he could get hold of an udder......

Shepherds used to drink straight from the sheep, not sure if you can get away with it with a cow.

I thought they sort of 'squirted' the milk in though rather than latching on.

oh yes, good point.

They kill the adults for food any young found they see it as their duty to care for otherwise they will die, I think it pretty funny how hunter/gatherer societies seem to show much respect to all life around them.