Indoor monkeys
This is my first time to see the indoor monkeys today. I used to watch monkeys out in the field cage, which can run around and play with other animals.
For indoor monkeys, they each have a small cage, or two monkeys share a bigger one. Those monkeys can see and hear each other, but barely touch. Even so, interestingly, they can still develop social hierarchy, and there are alpha and beta males too.
These monkeys as well as field cage ones, are wild, but because they are confined to the small cage, when they meet stranger, there is no place for them to run away, they behave much more aggressively. They don't like strangers, for example, me. Once I enter the room, some stare at me, some show threat, and others even shake the cage. A staff told me that they are amazingly fast and strong; if I get close to the cage, they can grab and scratch me very badly. They have a stronger sense of territory compared to field cage monkeys. Thus, they perceive every stranger as an enemy and want them to leave at once, or else they feel very insecure and irritated (and scary for me). Anyway, they are comfortable with others monkeys and the staffs who take care of them.
Another interesting thing is that they recognize the color of the clothes, not exactly the face of people. The staff told me that if I wear the same color as them, those monkeys will feel more calm.
Also, there is another room in which the monkeys behave quite differently. They are the monkeys for a specific project in which they will be given whatever they want, pretty much for food. They are all very big, strong, and cute. I can see that they've been taken good care of since their fur is smooth and neat, in a good physical condition. Maybe because they know they are big, or because they are always having a perfect life which can not be disturbed by a stranger, they behave very condidently and even friendly. They seldom show threat to me and some even lipsmack at me (which is a sign of affiliation). But I was told that it has nothing to do with affection,and it is just that they are more confident about themselves. Still I can be scratched or even killed if I get too close to them.
So sad, they can never know how much I like them...
For indoor monkeys, they each have a small cage, or two monkeys share a bigger one. Those monkeys can see and hear each other, but barely touch. Even so, interestingly, they can still develop social hierarchy, and there are alpha and beta males too.
These monkeys as well as field cage ones, are wild, but because they are confined to the small cage, when they meet stranger, there is no place for them to run away, they behave much more aggressively. They don't like strangers, for example, me. Once I enter the room, some stare at me, some show threat, and others even shake the cage. A staff told me that they are amazingly fast and strong; if I get close to the cage, they can grab and scratch me very badly. They have a stronger sense of territory compared to field cage monkeys. Thus, they perceive every stranger as an enemy and want them to leave at once, or else they feel very insecure and irritated (and scary for me). Anyway, they are comfortable with others monkeys and the staffs who take care of them.
Another interesting thing is that they recognize the color of the clothes, not exactly the face of people. The staff told me that if I wear the same color as them, those monkeys will feel more calm.
Also, there is another room in which the monkeys behave quite differently. They are the monkeys for a specific project in which they will be given whatever they want, pretty much for food. They are all very big, strong, and cute. I can see that they've been taken good care of since their fur is smooth and neat, in a good physical condition. Maybe because they know they are big, or because they are always having a perfect life which can not be disturbed by a stranger, they behave very condidently and even friendly. They seldom show threat to me and some even lipsmack at me (which is a sign of affiliation). But I was told that it has nothing to do with affection,and it is just that they are more confident about themselves. Still I can be scratched or even killed if I get too close to them.
So sad, they can never know how much I like them...
posted by AccIdeNtAl PeAk @ 11:28 AM
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