The Barbary Macaque Project is looking for 3 research assistants to continue work on an ongoing project examining the role that forest ecology (e.g. tree phenology and food abundance) and human activity play on the behaviour (e.g. feeding ecology and…
Wild monkeys watch fights to exploit losers for grooming
Wild macaques who are bystanders to fights within their group exploit the losers for grooming favours, new research has shown. The findings, published in the journal Animal Behaviour, reveal previously unknown details about the important function observing others’ aggressive behaviour serves…