Are humans the only flesh-eating primates?

Question

Or is there another species of primate that actually does some hunting/killing?

I never heard of flesh eating monkeys...

Answer 1

Everything else has been covered before me, but the only primate that eats nothing but animals is the tarsier.

This is a tarsier:

http://www.uncommonphotographers.net/wp-...

Yes, it is a primate.

Answer 2

I've seen baboons on the nature channel actually chase+kill other small animals and take a few bites...gross huh?

Answer 3

But in fact some do. Chimps do some monkey-hunting (and actually devouring them), and so does baboons. You might want to watch National Geographic from time to time.

Sorry not being much help. I forgot all about it, but believe it or not, its true that other primates are carnivorous too.

Answer 4

No, many primates eat flesh, particularly in the form of insects (remember that bushbabies, for example, are primates - their diet is almost exclusively insects). Even those which are primarily herbivorous will often eat them. Some primates, notably chimps and baboons, will actively hunt larger prey. Chimps seem to favour colobus monkeys as prey, and will form hunting parties to catch and kill them. Baboons will kill various species, including flamingos and gazelle fawns. They hunt alone and in an opportunistic fashion.

Answer 5

Chimps eat meat, and are sometimes cannibalistic.

Answer 6

Many primate species eat flesh.  Common chimpanzees hunt Colobus monkeys.  Packs of baboons run down a variety of prey (and have even been recorded taking down lions and leopards that threatened their troop).  Chacma baboons have been recorded fishing, and crab-eating macaques eat fish, crabs, frogs, and other aquatic animals.  Many primates, including mangabeys, baboons, and green monkeys, eat lizards, birds, and other small prey.  And, of course, a wide variety of primates, from tiny marmosets to chimps to humans, eat insects.

Answer 7

No, several species of apes do eat some meat.

Answer 8

Would you want to meet up with a baboon??

Answer 9

No, actually chimps have been observed eating smaller mammals, even smaller monkeys. Chimps are also the only animal other than humans that has been observed killing another animal just to kill it!

Answer 10

Chimpanzees go out, the whole tribe, hunting monkeys.

Peace.

Answer 11

babboons eat meat and so do chimps rarely but ive seen some kind of marmoset that eats clams

Answer 12

as far as i know there are only two species in "GROUP PRIMATES"  i.e man and monkey . man r the only flesh eating primates coz monkeys are herbivores and also eat fruits.

Answer 13

Yes, several primates feed on flesh, and are in fact known to form hunting parties.  For instance, the Primate Info Net reports that while olive baboons mainly feed on fruits and the like, they are capable of "active searching and stalking or chasing of the prey, usually a small antelope, ground-dwelling bird, or other small mammal."

So primates are not only capable of devouring flesh; they are well-adapted to acquiring it through complex methods.  Even more along the line is the fact that chimpanzees have been shown to be capable of crafting weapons in order to hunt down other primates!  See what Richard W. Byrne reports about chimpanzees hunting galagos (small primates that are colloquially known as "bush babies"):

"[...] chimpanzees have been seen making tools in order to hunt. As they report in this issue of Current Biology, Jill Pruetz and Paco Bertolani watched chimpanzees at Fongoli, Senegal, hunting for lesser bushbabies or galagos Galago senegalensis: small, agile and strictly nocturnal prosimian primates that spend their day hidden in tree holes. Systematically, chimpanzees fashioned sharp stick tools before trying to catch galagos. Typically, a chimpanzee would break off a living branch, trim off its leaves and side-branches and often the ends as well; and sometimes it would sharpen the stick with one or many bites of the incisors. The result was a sharp stick of 50-100 cm length, with which it could probe into tree cavities."

"[...] it seems clear that the point of tool-using is to prevent escape by first killing or injuring the animal. Lesser galagos are small animals and they travel in great leaps from tree to tree: capture of an uninjured individual would certainly be problematic for a chimpanzee, once the galago had left its daytime cavity."

"Galago hunting is largely the province of female and immature chimpanzees at Fongoli; males do hunt mammals, but go for larger species like monkeys, without use of tools."

Answer 14

flesh eating cannibalistic monkeys, monkeys eating other monkeys, chimpanzees hunting monkeys, baboons eating rabbits, flamingoes and pretty much anything else they can lay their hands on.

most primates are omniverous, even those that are herbivorous are only MOSTLY herbivorous, in times of need they can and will eat insects or larvae.

see the sources for the evidence