Monkeys peel bananas from the bottom, and you should too. The process is simple: Flip the banana upside down, pinch the bottom until the peel splits, and then—voila—you're ready to remove the peel. 27 февр. 2014 г.
How do monkeys actually eat bananas?
Wild monkeys don't eat them. "The entire wild monkey-banana connection in fact is total fabrication," Katharine Milton, who has studied the diets of primates for decades, told Tech Insider. "The edible banana is a cultivated domesticated plant and fruit.
Do apes eat bananas upside down?
A few years ago, a video went viral claiming that monkeys naturally eat bananas upside down (to be clear, we're talking about the orientation of the fruit, not the primate). Basically, while most of us peel bananas from the stem, the monkeys in question peeled their bananas from the opposite end.
Why should you peel a banana from the bottom?
Recently brought to our attention via @mylifeasdebra on TikTok, they demonstrated a method of banana-peeling that's one million times easier than how we've been doing it our whole lives. The trick is to peel them just like monkeys do, which is from the bottom. This way, your banana's squish-free and fully-intact.
Does a monkey eat the whole banana?
If there is a lot of food around, a monkey will only choose to eat the best part of a banana, the inside body. If feeling hungry, it might eat the entire banana, together with the skin. If they can't find bananas, some monkeys will even pick up the banana skin left by other monkeys and eat it.
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