Watching juvenile Barbary macaques playing on a dead tree trunk shows that it is not only human kids (and adults!) who enjoy playing on slide. Monkey kids seem to enjoy this game too! Proof in video: Sandra
Month: September 2012
New Paper on Post-Conflict Affiliation
A new paper from our team has just been published in the journal Animal Behaviour. The paper focuses on bystander post-conflict affiliation (i.e. the friendly post-conflict interaction between one of the former opponents and an individual not involved in the conflict) and it is one of the first studies to provide evidence that non-anthropoid primates (e.g. […]
Interspecific Cooperation?
There are several stray dogs living at our field site that depend largely on food brought by tourists intended for the monkeys. Although dogs are a potential predator to Barbary macaques, these dogs seem to be aware of this and do not attack them. Conversely, when the macaques sound an alarm call against a potential […]