01 July 2015

Monkeys domesticating wolves


Slate has an article by Paca Thomas about Mother Nature in action:
During field research on Ethiopia’s Guassa plateau, Dartmouth University primatologist Vivek Venkataraman encountered a remarkable scene: wolves and monkeys casually commingling. Why weren’t these Ethiopian wolves making little monkey meals out of the baby baboons? In fact, they seemed to do everything they could to avoid raising a ruckus, spending hours roaming through the large gelada herds foraging for rodents.
The video explores the curious behavior, and why it’s likely not to escalate to the relationship canines enjoy with humans.
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