Biological Anthropology: An Evolutionary Perspective

Monkey and Ape Social Behavior (1x6)

Air date: Jan 01, 2000

The rhesus monkeys of Cayo Santiago, an island off Puerto Rico, organize their society around groups of differently ranked females, while chimpanzee communities are male-dominated, organized around communal male hunting and border patrols. As Washburn would have predicted, a common trend of hierarchical grouping and intense social bonding emerges, across diverse primates.