Female monkeys manipulate males into fighting by shunning those who don't get involved [tr]

UK Daily Mail ^ | November 23, 2016 | Ryan O'Hare

[C19fan]

When it comes to warring monkeys, females wield the real power. A study has found that female vervet monkeys manipulate males into fighting battles by lavishing attention on brave soldiers while giving other males the cold shoulder. After scraps with rival gangs, usually over food, females would groom males that had fought hardest, while snapping at those that abstained.

[Gay State Conservative]

So that explains Ferguson (among other things)?

[tophat9000]

I thought it said

Femle monkeys manipulate males into fighting by shunning those who don’t evolve

[chiller]

You've got my back....then I've got yours.

This seems so totally natural for a species that wants to survive (all of them including humans) that it's not worth mentioning.

[Boogieman]

Humans get more benefit from NOT fighting over stuff like food than they do from fighting over it.

We’ve got enough food to feed the human population on the planet several times over. Fighting over stuff like that just causes chaos in other orderly systems that we have set up.

[DungeonMaster]

Monkeys: Over rated squirrels.

[keving]

kim kardashian and friends?

[PapaBear3625]

Back in World War 1, women would roam the streets presenting men in civilian clothes with white feathers, a symbol of cowardice. It was a movement to get men to enlist and fight.

One big motivation for WWI was access to colonies in Africa and Asia. British victory would result in British colonies not being lost, and the British economy continuing to do well.