Seen for the First Time: Golden Snub-Nosed Monkeys Nurse Other Females' Infants (2 of 4) (IMAGE)

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Seen for the First Time: Golden Snub-Nosed Monkeys Nurse Other Females' Infants (2 of 4)

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A mother is simultaneously suckling two infants in the same social unit. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Feb. 20th, 2019, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by Z. Xiang at Central South University of Forestry and Technology in Changsha, China, and colleagues was titled, "Routine allomaternal nursing in a free-ranging Old World monkey."

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[Credit: Zuofu Xiang]

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