There is something strange going on in the South of Nairobi. It concerns a troop of monkeys behaving in an aggressive manner towards women. Now I am not referring to making noises or thumping their chests. Whenever the women would tend to their crops, they are complaining that a troop of monkeys are sexually harassing them! The monkeys are making lewd signs at them and even going as far as touching the women on their private parts! Here are more details on this report:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global/main.jht...wmonkeys124.xml
Don't these primates operate by scent? It is likely they are either lacking females in their group or evolving in intelligence.
Someone is definitely teaching these monkeys to behave like this. Perhaps the monkeys are receiving food regularly from the individual in question. What I find peculiar is that, they are only harrassing the women and children and not the men. I suppose the monkeys are intelligent enough to distinguish the difference between male and female human beings via the scent. The person who is teaching them this vulgar behaviour has no respect for women and obviously, has nothing to do and all the time in the world to do it.
Monkeys' brains synchronize as they collaborate to perform a motor task. Scientists have previously shown that when one animal watches another performing a motor task, such as reaching for food, mirror neurons in the motor cortex of the observer's brain start firing as though the observer were also reaching for food. New research suggests mirroring in monkeys is also influenced by social factors, such as proximity to other animals, social hierarchy and competition for food. Source 5j.