Although there’s no extensive research on how eating chocolate can affect monkeys (extensive research was done on dogs, cats, rats, and mice), common sense tells us that monkeys shouldn’t eat chocolate as it’s not a natural food source for them. It would take one whole pound to poison a 20# dog.

Monkeys are omnivores and will eat anything edible they can get their little paws on. Most apes on the other hand are herbivores – with the notable exception of chimpanzees who will rip your face off and eat it if they get a chance.

Animal nutritionists at the zoo say giving bananas to the primates is like humans eating too much cake and chocolate. The monkey troop at the zoo have been on a health kick and have been avoiding food that is too sweet and sugary – including bananas.

Some deny that other primates have feelings. In sum, if we define crying as tearful sobbing, then we know that humans are the only primates that cry. If we define crying as emitting vocalizations that co-occur with distressing situations, then we can conclude that most monkeys and apes cry, especially as infants.

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They concluded that macaques lacked a sufficient supralaryngeal vocal tract, the space in humans that begins in the mouth and follows the hump of the tongue into the throat. Even if a monkey brain had the correct wiring for speech, the monkey vocal tract simply couldn’t produce adequate sounds to talk.

Monkeys can learn how to recognize their reflection For decades the prevalent thought in the scientific community was that monkeys do not possess the ability to recognize themselves, unlike humans.

As expected, the more squares in the array, the worse the performance. “But surprisingly, we found that monkeys, and by extension humans, do not have a general capacity in the brain,” says Miller. It was as if two separate brains — the two cerebral hemispheres — were looking at different halves of visual space.”

China

Monkey’s brain eaten alive is never a popular dish anywhere in China. It’s not a Chinese tradition. It’s illegal. It’s sold to fulfill some rich and audacious gourmets’ fantasy.