If the monkey is strongly preferred, then the reasoner will need to evaluate the plausibility of elephants eating monkeys.

Would you eat monkeys?

The snake ate mainly birds and monkeys, finding its victims by smell, then coiling round and suffocating them.

"I have no problem with the idea that chimps got it by eating other monkeys," he said.

Goodall discovered that the apes eat smaller monkeys regularly.

Occasionally they also eat seeds, leaves, flowers, buds, nuts, eggs,smaller monkeys, and small vertebrates.

The assumption is that the virus jumped to humans who had eaten or butchered monkeys, or had been bitten by monkeys.

Different primate families eat fruit, leaves, insects, flowers, small mammals, reptiles, amphibians, crabs or even other monkeys.

It mainly eats large rodents, opossums and monkeys, as well as, occasionally, bats and birds.

In 1870, other settlers noted with disgust that the natives often ate monkeys and dogs.