Thursday, April 09, 2009

Monkey Behaviour


Documentaries by Sir David Attenborough have been part of my daily life since I embarked on my third year in uni. Majoring in Biology had enabled me to see biodiversity in a whole new perspective. Now, I am so into the documentaries that I will watch them every Wednesday in Okto Animal Night. Yesterday's episode of the Life in Mammals was very engaging in the sense its super related to my behavioral bio module. Instead of the example on birds shown during the lecture documentaries, yesterday was about monkeys exhibiting similar behaviour as some birds.


It's amazing that how different species of monkeys co-operate with each other for anti-predation alliances and not squabbling within themselves for food (since they are on different diets). Very entertaining as you'll see cases of social hierachy and infidelity amongst the monkeys which is so so similar to some of human's behaviour especially these are the intelligent mammals. They are indeed social climbers. lol~


http://www.videosift.com/video/David-Attenborough-Life-of-Mammals-9-The-Social-Climbers

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