Probing Monkeys' Minds
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How Monkeys See The World by Dorothy Cheney and Robert Seyfarth (1990) is the result of many years of close observational research on vervet monkeys in Africa. Vervets are members of the Family Cercopithecidae who are monkeys who live in Africa and Asia. They are more closely related to apes and hominoids than are New World Monkeys, as their line and the hominoids diverged after the New World Monkey ancestors had migrated to South America. These are small (under 8 kilos) monkeys who live in multimale, multi-female social groups and compared to many forms, forage and travel on the ground more frequently. This means that they are in more danger of predation from terrestrial predators such as jackals, hyenas, lions, leopards and wild dogs, as well as eagles and other raptors. They must also cope with snakes, such as pythons, and other tree-climbing predators. Their large social group is an adaptation because there are many eyes to see and ears to hear potential danger. They also have pouches in their cheeks in which to store and carry food they may find on the ground to the safety of the trees. This is a feature of all Cercopithecid type monkeys such as baboons and macaques. Vervets are highly adaptable and live in a wide range of habitats from South Africa to Northern Kenya, and across the continent. Thus, they can be studied under a wide range of conditions and have taught us a great deal about how ‘monkeys see the world’.
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