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Volume 156, Number 3 (July 17, 1999)

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Do monkeys check each others' blues?

Male vervet monkeys may use the shade of blue on another male's scrotum as a clue to status.

References:

Gerald, M.S. 1999. An experimental evaluation of the signal of status hypothesis to account for scrotal color variability in captive vervet monkeys (Cercopithecus aethiops sabaeus). Meeting of the Animal Behavior Society. June. Lewisburg, Pa.

Sources:

Melissa S. Gerald
University of California, Los Angeles
Department of Anthropology
Los Angeles, CA 90095

From Science News, Vol. 156, No. 3, July 17, 1999, p. 47. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.

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