Scientists studying wild vervet monkeys in South Africa found that the animals were better able to learn a task when it was demonstrated by a female. The team from the University of Neuchatel, Switzerland, compared the animals' responses to those of a simple box-opening task demonstrated by males.

科學(xué)家在南非研究野生長尾猴的時(shí)候發(fā)現(xiàn)，當(dāng)雌性動物做示范時(shí)，其它觀摩動物能夠更好地完成學(xué)習(xí)任務(wù)。瑞士 Neuchatel 大學(xué)的研究小組在這個(gè)項(xiàng)目中通過讓雄性猴子和雌性猴子分別示范一個(gè)簡單的開瓶蓋的任務(wù)，比較了動物對主導(dǎo)雄性或雌性猴子的反應(yīng)。