Red Tailed Guenons Observation

Before conducting my observations and research, I initially believed that captive primates would express less food and mating stressed as zoo keepers provide the proper amount of food and assign individuals mates as they come to reproductive ages. Although there are some supporting evidence, there is not a significant amount to conclude that my initial hypothesis and predictions are correct. What I initially believed just be a display of curiosity and interest from the Red-tailed guenon was actually in fact a threat display. Red-tailed guenons use staring, seen in the photographs above, combined with head bobbing as threatening display, this has their eyes fixed on the stimulus (Flannery 2007). He and the single female were the only visible …show more content…
On the other hand, the tufted capuchin monkeys didn’t even acknowledge the passersby’s, continuing along their grooming and eating with no disturbance. In the photography above of the Tufted Capuchins, two capuchins are grooming each other without any disturbance. Following the one male individual, it was interesting to see how much time he devoted to grooming what appeared to be the dominant male and the time he took in preparing and consuming his food. One would believe that primates in a group would try to eat as much as they can as fast as they can in order to avoid conflict or to fight in order to maintain control of the food source. I believe that is due to the species social group organizations that my results were so varied. The Red-tailed guenon is a one male-multiple female based species, while the tufted capuchins are a multi-male, multi-female grouping. (Strier 2007). A reasoning could be that the capuchins are a very social species that use interactions to maintain the hierarchies within their groups could add to their even more relaxed behaviors in