Monkey Behavior
libre 12
The famous animal trainer Vladimir Leonidovich Durov had a young monkey, the chimpanzee Mimus. In a lively and fascinating way, Durov described his favorite chimp in the story "MonkeyMimus", placed in his collection of stories "My Animals". Here are two excerpts from that story: 
- Hello, Mimus!
- I say as I open the chimpanzee's cage in the morning.
Little furry arms wrap around my neck, and his trumpeted lips gently touch my lips. And behind me stands my wife. Mimus respectfully brings her hand to his lips and kisses it, but then feeling overtakes form, and he simply, unpretentiously, embraces her. His wife carries Mimus away in her arms..... We go to the bathroom to do our morning wash.
Mimus already feels the need for it. He can't stand dirty hands, he takes the soap himself, opens the faucet and washes himself, then puts the soap down and starts to wipe his hands with a towel. True, he has not yet gotten to washing his face, and my wife washes his face. But he doesn't resist. He even ridiculously reaches out to her face and only wrinkles and closes his eyes ....
...Every day! Mimus reminds us more and more of a human being. When he needed something from us, he was able to express it precisely and clearly: tapped his finger on the bottom of his plate, seeing in my wife's hand a piece of apple or pear; pointed his finger at the chain, when he wanted to leave the cage, pressed consciously on the bell, put on his neck, knotted in advance napkin....
At the table-he behaved no worse than a five-year-old, well-behaved child..., ate carefully with a spoon and fork next to us, did not scatter food on the table and himself moved his chair to the table before dinner. He only lacked human speech, but when I looked into his intelligent, expressive eyes, it occurred to me that he understood our speech ...
Similarly, many other authors describe humanoid or anthropomorphic apes (from the words: "anthropos" - man, "morphe" - form) - chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans. Yes, and each of us who have ever seen anthropomorphic apes, amazed by their cleverness, their behavior, which many resembles the behavior of humans.
Particularly noteworthy is the fact that great apes, if necessary, guess to use certain objects (sticks, stones, etc.) as a means to achieve certain goals.
Chimpanzee named Sultan
The following case is a good example of monkey behavior.
An orange is placed in front of the cage of a chimpanzee named Sultan. The monkey tries to reach it with his hand, slipping it between the bars of the cage. But the monkey's long arm is too short to reach the orange. Meanwhile, the orange beckons and irritates the monkey's appetite.
He is excited, rushes around the cage, grabs the bamboo sticks lying on the floor and strikes them on the hateful bars separating him from the tasty fruit. Then she tries to pull the orange toward her with one of the sticks. But even the stick is short. The monkey is angry, but does not let go of the bamboo sticks.
Finally, after a long fuss, the chimpanzee figures out how to insert one end of the stick into the hollow end of another, thicker stick and with the help of the thus lengthened "tool" moves the orange to the grate and takes it out by hand.
In another case the gorilla uses the stick to push out the bait lying in the tube. This experience indicates the special cleverness of the ape. After all, by pushing the bait out of the pipe with the stick, it is pushing it away from itself. Nevertheless, the gorilla shows enough intelligence to realize that only in this way will the bait become available to it.
In the laboratory of our famous scientist - Academician Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849-1936) contained two chimpanzees - Rose and Rafael, of which Rafael was able to solve quite complex problems.
For example, he used a long pole, with the help of which he climbed from one raft to another. Rafael independently opened the faucet of the cistern, drew water into his mouth and poured it on the fire that prevented him from getting the bait. Each success caused the monkey joy and jubilation.
On the contrary, in the case of failure Raphael became despondent, nervous, hysterical, rolled like a capricious child on the floor, making pitiful sounds. This is such an interesting behavior of monkeys can be noticed. Orangutans also show a lot of cleverness.
They use sticks and stones to achieve certain goals, learn to use utensils, bedding and other things. 
Not only the great apes, but also the lower apes show a lot of cleverness. Experiments of Soviet researchers in the Sukhumi monkey nursery showed that the lower monkeys (gamadrils, macaques) after several exercises are able to throw stones, quite accurately hitting the target with them. They use sticks to get bait, get water from a well, and even pour fire.
Darwin relates that some officer at the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, liked to tease a baboon he often passed by. This angered the monkey, and it was looking for an opportunity to take revenge on the hated man. And so, when the officer one Sunday was on his way to the parade, the baboon quickly poured water into a hole, melted mud in it and launched it at his enemy. And subsequently the monkey gloated whenever he saw the officer.
So the behavior of monkeys is quite unpredictable, especially in cases of self-defense. In ancient times, European scientists were not yet aware of great apes. Nevertheless, even studying the lower monkeys (macaques), the famous Roman physician Galen, who lived about one thousand eight hundred years ago, wrote that monkeys are funny copies of humans.
