Yes. What I was thinking was that people had previously given the monkeys treats by putting something in the monkey’s hand and closing its fingers, so that this is the monkey is more or less imitating something that it wants the human to do.
It is not that teaching is too complex for a monkey, it is that I don’t see what exactly it’s teaching, but I feel that I recognize what the monkey is doing as the “you keep this” gesture.
The monkey was folding the man’s fingers, not just handing him leaves.
If the monkey is giving a gift to incur a sense of obligation, it might be even more complex behavior than teaching.
Yes. What I was thinking was that people had previously given the monkeys treats by putting something in the monkey’s hand and closing its fingers, so that this is the monkey is more or less imitating something that it wants the human to do.
It is not that teaching is too complex for a monkey, it is that I don’t see what exactly it’s teaching, but I feel that I recognize what the monkey is doing as the “you keep this” gesture.