Findings into Spider Monkeys Unveiled
A recent study into Spider Monkey Groups reveals that this species of monkeys use hugs and French-style cheek-to-cheek touch mutual armpit sniffing at the start of a large meeting presumably to ease tension and to keep things from getting aggressive. Splitting apart into sub-groups and then later uniting together is very common in Spider Monkeys, the report said. The reunions among other species of monkeys most often turn into big strife between groups, but the spider monkeys, have astonishingly learnt how to avoid aggression and violence at reunions and gatherings through the natural process of hugging and embracing. The leader of the study, primatologist Filippo Aureli of Liverpool John Moores University in the United Kingdom said, “ These embraces are used to try to avoid some of the uncertainty.
Note: The study is based on observations of wild black-handed spider monkeys in a forest on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula