Yet another seemingly human-like bit of monkey behavior: apparently monkeys are willing to pay for sex as well as trade juice for porn. That’s right, the world’s oldest profession has made inroads into the animal kingdom — Animal Behavior reported earlier this year that male macaques in Indonesia were known to trade grooming services for sex. The grooming was always done first, offered up as a kind of pre-sex ritual.
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Monkeys and humans are both irrational
Capuchins and humans are both more scared of losing than economics would suggest.
“Some of the most deeply ingrained economic behaviors turn out to be very, very ancient and hardwired parts of our decision-making processes,” said Yale economics professor and the study’s lead author, Keith Chen. “If I showed a string of capuchin monkey data to an economist, he couldn’t, with any statistical test, tell the difference between a capuchin monkey and your average American stock market investor.”
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