Brazzaville: Researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society’s (WCS) Congo program and the Nouabale-Ndoki Foundation have found that female stop monkeys (Cercopithecus nictitans) use males as ‘hired guns’ to protect against predators such as leopards.
Publish their results in the journal Royal Society Open Science, the team discovered that female monkeys use alarm calls to recruit males to defend themselves against predators. The researchers conducted the study among 19 different groups of wild-stop monkeys, a type of forest goose, in Mbeli Bai, a study area in the forests in the Nouabale-Ndoki National Park, Northern Republic of Congo.
The results advance the idea that men’s general alarm necessitates men judging the nature of the threat and that it serves to recruit men to ensure group defense. Females stop the alarm call only when males make calls related to defense against predators.
The study’s lead author, Frederic Gnepa Mehon, of the WCS Congo Program and the Nouabale-Ndoki Foundation, said: ‘Our observations on other forest guidelines suggest that if men are not good group protectors, they should probably be groups. left as good defenders. To date, it remains unclear whether female windows have a say in size selection, but our current results strongly suggest this possibility. ‘
Source: Telangana Today