Arguments are allowed, but excessive targeting or harassment of individuals is unacceptable. Strong language is allowed in moderation, although not directed to other users. /r/NinjaKiwiOfficial, /r/battd, /r/BTD5, /r/battles2.Posts about those should go into their respective subreddits. This includes content from other Bloons and Ninja Kiwi games.Then the whales would lunge upward and feast.īut in 1980, researchers saw one whale first smack the water loudly with its tail - a maneuver called lobtail - making a big noise and a giant splash before blowing bubbles, said researcher Jenny Allen.Rules 1 Only content related to Bloons TD 6 is allowed Until then, whales usually fed by blowing bubbles underwater to corral small fish, which don’t seem to like to swim through bubbles. In the 27-year whale study, scientists began tracking an unusual feeding behavior in 1980. She figures that the other males were trying to get in good with females, while the dominant male acted as “if he’s already in charge, why does he need to do like the others?” Van de Waal said it could be the eat-what-locals-eat idea, but she favors the concept of social conformity, or peer pressure. The only holdout was an alpha male, which stuck to his previous diet. Of the 10 migrating males, nine instantly ate what everyone else ate. And that’s when the researchers saw peer pressure in action.
Just by sheer luck, some blue-eating monkeys went to the pink-eating tribes and some pink-eating males went to blue tribes. The next generation automatically ate the same as their mother, showing how food choice is learned. The researchers were surprised by the finding: They had been aiming only to find out if mothers taught their young the same color food preference they learned, Whiten said. Or it could be that the monkeys are learning to adapt to local custom - think restaurant reviews or the old saying “when in Rome, do as the Romans do,” he said.
The social pressure may be like “teenagers with a desperate need to be just like the other guys,” said co-author Andrew Whiten, also of St. Pink eaters also changed when they moved to a blue-food area.
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Blue-food eaters instantly switch when they moved to an area full of pink-food eaters, even though they had shunned pink food before. After a few meals, the food was no longer tainted, but the monkeys still wouldn’t eat the color they figured was bad.īut that changed when some of them tried to fit in with a new group of monkeys. One color for each group was tainted with aloe to give it a harmless but yucky flavor. “We can find many of the roots of our behaviors in animals.”įor her study, 109 vervet monkeys living in groups in the wild were given a choice of food tinted pink or blue by the researchers. “We’re not as unique as we would like to think,” said the monkey study’s lead author, Erica van de Waal, of the University of St.
South African monkeys switched foods purely because of peer pressure, and humpback whales off the coast of New England copied a new way to round up a fish meal, according to two studies in the journal Science. Some wild animals seem to follow similar monkey-see, monkey-do behavior to find the best eats, new research finds. You don’t have to be a teenager to want to fit in.
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