An international team of scientists has discovered that female golden snub-nosed monkeys (Rhinopithecus roxellana), an endangered species of Old World monkey found in the seasonally cold mountainous forests of south-west China, are happy to feed other monkeys’ offspring. This is the first evidence of a phenomenon called allomaternal nursing in an Old World nonhuman primate. A mother is simultaneously suckling two infants in the same social unit....
