all my life, when I’ve seen footage of human/primate interaction. There seems to be a “grooming” clip in the mix, where the chimp, monkey, whatever it be, is grooming a human like it would one of its own.
My question comes from the fact that, well, they seem to be successful in their search for bugs, lol, cause they often eat whatever they pick off.
Does this mean we’re all out here running around with bugs in our hair that primates can detect and we can’t….?!
Outside of microscopic beings that inhabit all our bodies?
If not. What are they picking off and eating? Scalp?
Hairs?
Thank you. 🙏
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Like you said shouldn’t be so much stuff as they appear to find, looks to be theater. Oh they are finding and removing so many parasites, I will allow them to groom longer. They have been grooming for a while and are really helping me out. And the bond between the two grows stronger even if more than half of the found bugs were fake.
I believe I have heard with other grooming animal relationships like the bird and the rhino they are picking wounds bigger drinking the blood, eating chunks of flesh, it’s not as mutually beneficial as it looks to be on the surface because they aren’t finding enough of a free meal in parasites.
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