A man, armed with an AK-47 rifle, killed a monkey in a Nigerian forest and dragged the carcass home but unknown to him, the baby of the slain monkey had clung to its mother’s remains.
The incident happened in Akwa Ibom State, South-south Nigeria.
It was the man’s wife who discovered the tiny baby monkey and later donated it to the Biodiversity Preservation Centre, Uyo, according to Edem Eniang, a professor of Wildlife at the University of Uyo, who narrated the incident to PREMIUM TIMES, 29 January.
The monkey is a Red-capped Mangabey species. The woman and her family nicknamed it AK-47 because of the story around it.
Mr Eniang is the head of the Biodiversity Preservation Centre, Uyo.
“When the woman wanted to prepare the meat for bushmeat she discovered there was this baby clinging to the dead mother. As a woman she felt so bad, she pulled the baby off and ran somewhere, bought prepared…
