Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻💻🧬#Baboon #SiblingRivalry Suggests Monkeys Feel Jealousy Like People
Young primates in African nature park were observed to constantly interfere when their mother was giving attention to sibling.
Would see adolescent baboons trying to steal #mother’s attention while a sibling, often a younger one, was being groomed. Some would throw tantrums; some try to wedge their way in between mother and sibling; and some clever baboons would employ trickery.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/science/jealousy-siblings-baboons-monkeys.html
https://archive.ph/CdHda
Young primates in African nature park were observed to constantly interfere when their mother was giving attention to sibling.
Would see adolescent baboons trying to steal #mother’s attention while a sibling, often a younger one, was being groomed. Some would throw tantrums; some try to wedge their way in between mother and sibling; and some clever baboons would employ trickery.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/science/jealousy-siblings-baboons-monkeys.html
https://archive.ph/CdHda
