Macaque monkey - cops and dominance

[thymidinekinase]

A colleague and I were talking about dominance fights and survival fights the other day. Politics was mentioned. (Heh) Then I saw this piece about "police" among macaque monkeys and how they actually get their position in the hierarchy by voting. Intriguing. Leave a comment

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the a-word

[mundungus42]

This is fascinating! The NY Times had a recent piece talking about developing "personality" profiles for animals, including Pacific Giant Octopui. I guess anthropomorphism is only a dirty word when the context isn't reproducable in a laboratory setting :)

Four legs good, two legs bad/better,

Lib

[catsittingstill]

Interesting!