Two monkeys are shy when kissing. Are monkeys shy?

Shy. Mark Hauser, a psychologist at Harvard University, observed the embarrassing phenomenon of rhesus monkeys in a male rhesus monkey. After a tryst with a female monkey, this swaggering monkey accidentally fell into a ditch. It stood up and looked around quickly. After making sure that no one saw its joke, the proud monkey swaggered away again, with his back straight and his head and tail high as if nothing had happened.

First, shyness is a kind of self-awareness.

Whether animals feel embarrassed seems to be a stupid question, but the ability to be shy is a reflection of having self-awareness. Without self-awareness, who cares what they look like? Embarrassment is hard to detect. By definition, people and animals are more willing to hide this feeling.

Second, it is undeniable.

With the help of comparative research methods of neurobiology, endocrinology and animal behavior, this paper probes into the main mechanism of embarrassment. If we know that animals and humans have the same pattern of nerve and hormone secretion when they are embarrassed (just like when they are happy), then we have enough reason to think that animals can also feel embarrassed. Besides, there is not enough evidence to deny that animals have the ability to feel embarrassed.

Third, the embarrassing feelings of chimpanzees.

Jane goodall thinks she witnessed the embarrassment of chimpanzees. Feifei is an old acquaintance of Jane Goodall for more than 40 years. She is the daughter of Flo, another famous chimpanzee. When Feifei's son Floyd was five and a half years old, his uncle and Feifei's brother Fagan were the largest chimpanzees. Freud always imitates Fagan because he worships this gorilla. On one occasion, Feifei was combing Fagan's hair. Freud climbed the branch of a banana tree. After it climbed to the top, it began to swing back and forth violently. If it is a human child, then this behavior will be considered as showing off. Suddenly, the branch broke and Freud fell into the deep grass. It happened to be near jane goodall, and she found it unhurt. When its head poked out of the grass, Jane Goodall saw it looking nervously in the direction of Fagan, as if asking again, "Did Fagan notice?" But even if Fagan did see it, he didn't care, but continued to comb his hair. Freud climbed quietly to another tree and began to eat.

Shyness and embarrassment are hard to detect. By definition, people and animals prefer to hide this feeling. In Pu 'er, Yunnan, a video of two monkeys kissing became popular on the Internet. The video shooter said that he happened to find two monkeys kissing and filmed it. Some netizens commented that it is very similar to the expression when human kissing was discovered, and it was taught by couples who traveled. ?