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Golden Snub-Nosed Monkeys Nurse Other Females' Infants
Being a mom is hard enough, but imagine mothering someone else’s kids, too. That’s the norm for golden snub-nosed monkeys, according to a new study in the journal Science Advances. Scientists found that over a five-year period, more than 87 percent of golden snub-nosed monkey infants were nursed by females other than their mothers – a phenomenon called allonursing.
Read the whole story at National Geographic: Why Do These Monkeys Nurse Each Other's Babies?