Nature: Female putty-nosed monkeys use males as hired guns to defend against predators like leopards
Female putty-nosed monkeys use males as ‘hired guns’ to defend against vicious predators such as leopards Researchers studied groups of putty-nosed monkeys in the north of the Congo They exposed the monkeys to a ‘leopard model’ — a man in a leopard-print sheet The team found that the sexes responded differently to the simulated threat Females … Read more