Monthly Archives: September 2012

Monkeys playing on slide?

Posted on September 23, 2012 by Sandra Molesti

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

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New Paper on Post-Conflict Affiliation

Posted on September 7, 2012 by Bonaventura Majolo

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) … Continue reading →

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Interspecific Cooperation?

Posted on September 3, 2012 by laetitiamarechal

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 … Continue reading →

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