Monkeys learn that crime pays

• Autores: Brian Owens
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3128, 2017, pág. 14
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Macaques living near an Indonesian temple have figured out how to run a ransom racket on visiting tourists. The monkeys grab valuables, such as glasses, hats, cameras or, in one case, awad of cash from the temple ticket booth, then wait for staff to offer them food before dropping their ill-gotten gains and dashing off with the prize. This behavior has been reported anecdotally at Uluwatu Temple on the island of Bali for years, but it had never been studied scientifically in the wild. So Fany Brotcorne, a primatologist at the University of Liège in Belgium, and her colleagues set out to discover how it has spread through the long-tailed macaque population