A guide to nutty etiquette

Steven Pinker, Jane Goodall and Richard Wrangham sit on the tenth floor of William James Hall munching on Froot Loops. They shriek in unison whenever a stranger enters the room, and they poop all the time.
But it’s OK—they’re monkeys.

The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Testing Monkeys—for Jealousy

 

AND FURTHERMORE:

“One day I go into the colony room, and see a female hanging upside down, with her vaginal area facing a heater fan in the room,” Hauser writes in an e-mail. “I can’t quite understand why. Then I see her urinate into the fan, and bingo, a new function.”  The monkey, Hauser says, had found a particularly efficient way to mark her territory. “This female had worked out how to maximize technology,” Hauser writes, “spraying her urine all over the colony room.”