True Facts: Macaques

today we will explore the culture of them makkac we journey how do you say this one you think it's my now that's too long to be macaque maybe Mecca Q o macaque alright Kashima island in the south of Japan is home to a number of Japanese macaques these mechanics have been provisioned for nearly 75 years this means that researchers bring them sweet potatoes and then research them which is cool think of it as an all-inclusive nudist resort except I guess only sweet potatoes are included and strangers are watching you and taking notes it's creepy actually but it's better than sitting up in a tree in the middle of a snowstorm so not a bad gig for a snow monkey oh gosh I forgot to tell you they're also called snow monkeys sorry I swear look up a picture of a dictionary inside of a and you'll find me let me explain Japanese macaques also live in the mountains in the north of Japan where it snows quite a bit no other non-human primate lives in colder places and the human primates that do are constantly bitching about it except for the Canadians they keep it all locked up inside but these mechanics are good at the winter thing as the temperature gets colder their fur gets thicker except on their but they don't have fur on their but I feel like that's a Miss but it looks like fun doesn't it playing in the snow and what is that eating bark alright I'll be honest with you it looks like a crappy time to me out they are freezing your nits off and eating bark however and listen to these in the 1960s some young Japanese macaques hippies were spotted using an outdoor hot spring at a resort resort SFIL dad joke and once those young macaques dipped they're freezing but cycles into that warm water they got used to it and pretty soon all their macaque friends were showing up and you know what happened next the peoples built those macaques their own hot spring park when does that ever happen you try it get a group of friends and hang out naked in your neighbor's hot tub you won't get a free hot tub out of it I'll tell you that but that's what happened and now they've got a good sitch they got their own hot spring and people pay money to take pictures of them taking a bath all right it's a little weird now you see that I wouldn't do that I wouldn't drink from it tub water it's like a used soup who knows what everyone's doing in there like look at these three the one in the middle is totally peeing he's trying to be low-key about it and the one on the right keeps looking over he's onto him and then three two one there the one on the left felt it hot tub got hotter meanwhile this one's warming up his noodle on the hot water pipe and then she comes along and says I'll take it out dente she's clever like that and they get right into it and they're both balancing on the pipe and that's not a euphemism and it doesn't last that long maybe cuz it's cold out there and they both want the pipe again not a euphemism but she sits up right sorry up right probably because it feels good on the swelling jeez I'm sorry I forgot to tell you about the swelling I'll explain after a brief message about our sponsor this is not your ordinary monkey and a bath tower this one's pissed off or yawning I can't tell this is hit monkey a new highly accessorized character in Marvel contest of Champions a free-to-play fighting game that you can play in your bathtub it monkey joins a gigantic cast of animal based characters all of which seem to have a bit of a chip on their shoulder but how many of them have a foot gum hit monkey does along with a very well fitted suit I might add you can play as this little raccoon fellow with his orange pantsuit who prefers weapons that are disproportionately large then there's like this duck that's not a duck it's like a tiny more thing which is frankly terrifying but also kind of amazing but the important thing is that hit monkey and Tigra are new this month in the contest you can play as them in over 170 other Marvel characters right from your mobile device download Marvel contest of Champions from the App Store or Google Play even as a monogrammed tie clip very stylish you'd call him hit monkey or not where were we oh right swelling let me explain see the one on the left wearing the kind of creepy hockey mask right well actually that's a backwards monkey and that's its butt and it's a great butt to have if you like sitting in trees it's got these hardened pads on it called ischial kalasa T's might be a little easier to see on a crested macaque it's sort of like when you get a hemorrhoid the doctor gives you this kind of butt doughnut pillow it's like that except the pillow in this case is made out of the hemorrhoid but not really but like a comfortable head anyway if you play the footage backwards it looks like a really weird runway show now around the time a female macaque is fertile the skin of her genitals in perineum the science word for taint swells as a sort of sexual signal the degree of the swelling depends on the female and the species we'll take a test see if you can spot someone that's ready to mate all right do you need more time it's tricky right because that could be a nose anywho that's what I meant by swelling in the pipe-laying footage that one was a euphemism back to the macaques in the hot spring I know what you're thinking that looks pretty chill but it's not really that chill I mean it's not not chill but it's not chill chill these are fairly strict societies each of these macaques as a rank within the troop it's sort of like in middle school when you went to your friend's house and you found a list he made of his friends in order and you're not even in the top five which is bull because you lend him your bike anyway it's like Game of Thrones but with less nudity and if someone gets caught drinking monkey soup where they shouldn't be things get ugly but violence is dangerous sorry but violence is dangerous Jerry you have to proofread this even a small injury can lead to death because they haven't invented doctors yet sorry look at this one backwards instead of fighting all the time they have a number of ways of reinforcing the social order like the grooming each other thing I mean it's really just non-stop but it's a good way to check in and de-stress and they'll back right up into it too because nothing says I trust you more than putting your junk two inches away from someone's giant teeth macaques are also very good at communicating with their feces sorry faces Jerry when you watch one like this big tail macaque it can look like when someone gets a little too into a TV show and starts acting out the characters with their face marriage but Papa would never allow it elope but what about the zombies these expressions can help reinforce rank for example a submissive macaque might grimace which looks like a smile but it's like that weird smile you get when somebody's being it to you and later on you're like why was I smiling then there's lip smacking which is like when you get nervous and start talking really quickly except in this case there's no words that by the way was lazy dominance not even showing up to work however in some species these same gestures can be a sign of friendship and affiliation I mean looks nice right there we should all be doing a bit more of that better than arguing on Facebook anyway but don't think that this is a society held together by some alpha male grabbing noses there is an alpha male but the power is very much centered on matrilines lineages of mothers and daughters that form alliances and will stay in the troop their whole lives young males on the other hand are more or less kicked out around puberty which I'm sure is awkward Charlie do you remember how I told you your father went out for cigarettes and never came back yeah well I'd like you to get some cigarettes now so anyway what might appear to be a bunch of monkeys being in a pool getting all handsy with each other is actually a very nuanced little society they manage to get their own hot tub what else are they working on macaques are smart long-tailed macaques figured out how to use stone tools to crack open shellfish and then they applied those techniques to a new food oil palm nuts and what's more it seems that some troops have their own preferences for types of stones so what about Japanese macaques what sorts of things are they learning and passing down for that let's go back to the snow monkeys that live on the beach the ones that probably just ordered two sweet potatoes at some point but instacart delivered two duffel bags worth instead you know it's happened to you so in the 1950s a one-and-a-half year old dead macaque was a Jerry is this right it was dead no I say it has since died you can see how that's confusing in the 1950s and not dead yet but can we just leave the dead part out a one and a half year old macaque was observed washing a sweet potato in a freshwater stream and this was a brand-new behavior they named this macaque eman which means potato and that's why you have to be careful about what you get caught washing by the way might be your nickname that's what Josh bowls in the sink Spectre always told me this new behavior spread first laterally to email siblings and playmates the kids always start the cool trends then was passed up to the mothers as it spread the behavior changed and they started taking the sweet potatoes to the salt water of the sea the washing continued there but some started to dip between bites they were using salt as a seasoning for their potato two-thirds of the way to a french fry get these guys at deep fryer I'm sure a few might fall in but that's how I learned to swim now in the first generation of potato washers this behavior spread from the youngster to the adults in the next generation however the Debbie's learned from their mother's watching as they were carried along down to the water's edge but emo was not done innovating yet she's like a little genius monkey in addition to the sweet potatoes grains of wheat were scattered around the beach Amol figured out that instead of picking up the grains one by one which is a huge pain in the butt she could scoop up a bunch of sand that had grains in it and bring that over to the water toss that in and the wheat grains separate out kudos to her I wouldn't have figured that out I'd still be back yelling and whoever scattered the grains in the first place I mean who does that it's like saying you're gonna bring Pringles to a party and then crumbing them all up and shoving them in your pants sure technically you brought them but nobody wants to eat them that way anyway emo died many years ago which is sad who knows what else she might have come up with but her innovations gave us a peek at how macaques learn new things and how those learnings become traditions that are passed down through the generations perhaps the building blocks of culture so it's macaque right but they the genus name is what Mitaka will throw macaca up on the screen okay macaca I see it Jerri don't do that leave macaca where it was don't play with it remarkably raspberry here has learned how to use a stick to help she's just being it to pepper we can't use that [Music] you [Music]

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Published: Thu Jun 25 2020

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Funny!! Also informative and interesting.