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Vervet monkey siblings often have conflicts over grooming allocation by their mother, yet grooming remains an activity that mediates tension and is low cost for alliance formation and maintenance. This grooming occurs both between siblings and between mother and child.
Mothers can always get their babies back if there is no strict dominance hierarchy. [22] In some species of cercopithecine monkeys, multiparous females, especially those who have infants or are pregnant, can be aggressive to infants that are not their own. Kidnapping and aggression may be forms of reducing reproductive competition between females.
Infanticide in non-human primates occurs as a result of exploitation when the individuals performing the infanticide directly benefit from consumption or use of their victim. [1] The individual can become a resource: food ( cannibalism ); a protective buffer against aggression, or a prop to obtain maternal experience.
Sarah Kite, co-founder of Action for Primates, said examples that film-makers carry out included: clamping an infant monkey’s body with pliers; using lit cigarettes to burn a baby monkey tied to ...
In 2021, a US-based private “monkey haters” online group, where members paid to have baby monkeys tortured and killed on camera in Indonesia was closed down, but other extreme videos have ...
A critically endangered monkey recently gave birth to three tiny triplets at a Kansas zoo.. The “precious” cotton-top tamarin babies were born to mother Kasasa and father Hotlips on Oct. 27 ...
In infant monkeys it was found that contact comfort from their mothers was necessary to encourage positive social outcomes. The monkeys without those comfort behaviours developed fear and anxiety. [13] This comfort behaviour has an important impact because in the absence of a mother, juvenile monkeys cling to each other for contact comfort. [14]
Towards the end of March 2018, it was reported that a monkey had entered a house in the village of Talabasta, Odisha, India and kidnapped a baby. The baby was later found dead in a well. Though monkeys are known to attack people, enter homes and damage property, this reported behaviour was unusual. [71] [72]