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Japan’s Monkey Queen Faces Challenge to Her Reign: Mating Season

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> Since the reserve opened, its staff has kept tabs on the romantic and political struggles of its simian residents.

There's something oddly wholesome about this.

It's pretty common for animal communities in captivity in Japan!

For example, a lot of zoos or aquariums will have a large penguin community and they'll keep track of the family trees and relationships, friendships, enemies, all that, on a chart.

Here's one for the Sumida Aquarium: https://www.sumida-aquarium.com/sokanzu/assets/img/img_sokan...

And a similar one for the Kyoto Aquarium: https://www.kyoto-aquarium.com/sokanzu/assets/img/img_sokanz...

Note that even the staff are included in this chart...

This just made my whole week. Thank you.

I'm glad you enjoyed it. :)

It even has a "cheating or more than friends" relationship, this is very funny.

Rhesus Macaques, native to Indian subcontinent follow similar culture —- gregarious, matrilineal and unfortunately violent.

I found it pretty funny to read about the political and violent struggles of the monkeys and then the first image halfway down shows they live in or at least have access to a playground like area.

> Goro bit Yakei in the face in 2019, a move that caused her bottom to flush bright red — a sign she was ready and willing to take him as a mate.

Since macaques are considered to be very closely related to humans[0], that might be something to try if I ever find myself without mate again. I don't think that there's anything that could go wrong with that approach.

[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19940391/

This caused my mind to have the following thought: I guess kissing is very technically a super-gentle form of biting.

That, and it has also suggested[0] that kissing might be related to feeding behavior.

[0] https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/hide-and-seek/201402...

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