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Fatty Red Flowers for Red-Tailed Monkeys

Dr. Kim Valenta recently published a paper on the unusual nutritional qualities of a pantropical flowering tree, Symphonia globulifera. Although red-tailed monkeys (Cercopithecus ascanius) in the mountains of East Africa seldom consume large quantities of flowers as part of their regular diets, each spring magnificent bright red flower displays from S. globulifera, a tree that […]