Author:
Burton Frances D.,Chan Leslie Kin Wai
Abstract
An unusual but sustaining case of interspecific infant care behaviour was observed in June 1985 while an ecological and behavioural study of the macaques was being conducted in the forest of the Kowloon Peninsula, Hong Kong. We describe this specific interaction among three long-tail macaque infants (Macaca fascicularis) and their mothers and two stump-tail macaque (Macaca thibetana) females who acted as "babysitters." The cross-species infant care observed took place in a polyspecific group which also included rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) and hybrids of rhesus and long-tail monkeys. This unique combination of macaque species in a large social and biological group provides an opportunity for the investigation of the role of behaviour in species identification and hybridization in natural habitats.
Publisher
Canadian Science Publishing
Subject
Animal Science and Zoology,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Cited by
5 articles.
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