Photograph of an indigenous woman nursing a Woolly monkey
(Lagothrix lagotricha)
in the Amazon rain forest. Curiously, it is not uncommon for
indigenous women in the Amazon to breastfeed a young monkey whose
mother has died. Often during hunting, the mother will be killed
leaving behind her young. Indigenous Amazonians often adopt the young
monkey as a pet, hence the women breastfeeding the monkey in the above
picture.