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Tail Positions of Cercopithecus aethiops
Author(s) -
Bernstein Penny L.,
Smith W. John,
Krensky Alan,
Rosene Karen
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
zeitschrift für tierpsychologie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.739
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1439-0310
pISSN - 0044-3573
DOI - 10.1111/j.1439-0310.1978.tb01449.x
Subject(s) - cercopithecus aethiops , agonistic behaviour , psychology , communication , social psychology , biology , aggression , virus , virology
The range of elevated positions in which captive Cercopithecus aethiops monkeys held their tails is apparently a continuum of display behavior. Different positions correlated with different behavior: Any might be adopted during a great diversity of activities, but with the more anterad positions a monkey might forego non‐agonistic behavior to attack, and with the more posterad to withdraw. When the tail was held straight upright locomotion for any end was momentarily improbable.