Japanese monkeys playing with a block of snow

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Shot Date: 2005/01/11

species
Macaca fuscata

Key Words
Jigoku-dani
Japanese monkey
play



Yuko Misono
2005/03/31 submitted


Animalia >Chordata >Mammalia >Primates >Cercopithecidae >Macaca >

One juvenile was holding a block of snow as if it were a very precious thing. The other juvenile came to steal the block. The two scrambled for the snow block for a while. The one who originally had had the block seemed to have won the game; however, it ran back to the other and the two began to scramble for the snow block again. The behavior of the one with the block, in which it approaches the opponent when the opponent stops chasing, resembles the dragging-a-tree-branch play in ”ĘGroup play in Japanese monkey 3 (Data number: momo010930mf02b).
(translated by Asoh)

(Data No.momo050331mf01b)

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