Yesterday I learned, from
Chris, that Rousseau wrote remarkable descriptions of orangutan 'society' (for want of a better word) given that he'd never actually seen one. Unfortunately, I don't know what exactly he had to say, although apparently Wokler wrote on this. Anyway, I doubt that even he would have predicted that
orangutans cannibalize their young!
I doubt Rousseau would have seen eating one's children as a drawback in a society, given his tendency to abandon his own to pretty uncertain fates...
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