Friends help more promptly, at least in monkeys
Tuesday, July 31, 2012 - 20:00
in Psychology & Sociology
Behavioral scientists have found out that crested macaques react faster if threatened by predators when a group member they share close social bonds with calls for help. In order to study this behavior, the scientists recorded recruiting calls of the monkeys. The macaques utter them, when predators like pythons are in sight.