Capuchin Monkey Soap Opera in Costa Rica | Expedition Raw

capuchins are really feisty animals they
fight a lot and they fight
collaboratively just like humans do
kind of like tribal warfare it’s pretty
disturbing to see these interactions
because often one favorite monkey is
killing another monkey or awfully fond
of well he was further away it was just
twittering like crazy and cooing and
everybody was getting annoyed with him
and we’ve seen infants getting too close
to the enemies and we’ve been really
frightened it’s something like that
would happen again so the other day we
were worried when we saw that Winslow
homers the 14 months infant he got
trapped when the conflict happened in
his group fled and he just couldn’t find
him
we were so nervous but he didn’t seem
nervous at all he approached females he
played with the infant’s that he was
seamlessly integrated into the group he
made friends right away and we were we
were very proud of him of course he’s
always been a favorite to house they are
so much like human beings and so
scientists want to have models for
testing ideas about how we evolved to be
the way we are and capuchins are perfect
for that because they independently
evolved a lot of the characteristics
that humans have which we think are
really interesting so things you can’t
really study in humans sex political
intrigue and so forth they’ll do right
in front of me okay here come little
males just to chase
socata again he just fled every single
day I have seen something new these
monkeys have so much personality it’s
like a soap opera
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