Washington (AP) – Child Stock Monkey He clung to the back of the older male monkey, and its small fingers that hold the fur. But it is not relevant, not even the same type.
Scientists have monitored sudden evidence of what they describe as kidnapping the monkey while reviewing video footage from a small island of Panama. the Caprin monkeys It was seen carrying at least 11 howl -children between 2022 and 2023.
“This was a horrific discovery,” said Zoe Goldsburo, a behavioral environment at the Max Planck Institute for animal behavior in Germany. “We haven’t seen anything like this in the animal kingdom.”
Monkery motives are still under investigation. Capsenine are cats the size of cats in South America and Central America. They are long -standing and smart and learn new behaviors from each other. I learned one group of Kabuchians in Panama to use stone tools to break open nuts and seafood.
Goldsberg and other researchers at Max Planck and the Smithsonian Institute for Equatorial Research created more than 80 cameras to study the use of cabin tools, but they were surprised by seeing the first howl children to appear in early 2022.
The shots showed cables walking and bombing stones tools with the children’s howl on their backs. But the cameras did not pick up the kidnapping moments, which scientists likely said in the trees, as the howl spends most of their time.
“Our window in this story is restricted,” said Margaret Cruvot of Max Blanc and Samithonian. The results were published in the magazine Current biology.
The researchers said in most cases or in all cases, he died. Esit monkeys are usually performed by their mothers while they are still bound. All children in the video – from a few weeks to a few months of age – were very young so that they were not lost.
“A part of me who wants to believe some people escaped and returned to their mothers, but we do not know,” Cruvot said.
Videos have recorded some of the young male males who are still carrying the children who died, most likely from hunger. Many animals – from gorilla to Orcas It was noted that they carry dead offspring, although scientists are not sure of the reasons.
Why did the male cables do that? There were no signs of intentional aggression against children and they were not eaten, and they were excluded from predators.
Goldsburo said: “We all spent hours gathering our brains why they will do it,” Goldsburo said.
She said that the first thing that children kill may have a “care motivation” or the instinct of parents, because he showed kindness interacting with infants. Then four other males copied his actions.
The researchers said that they did not believe that the cabosheen intentionally harmed the children. To date, it is known that only one group of cabinn kidnapped.
“The remarkable behavioral difference across social groups of the same type,” said Catherine Carackford, a primitive specialist at the CNRS Institute for Cognitive Sciences in France, which did not participate in the study.
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