Langur Monkeys Grieve And Sad When Robot Artificial They Die

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Grownnews: Jakarta - A group of scientists and the event tried to record the behavior of a group of langur monkeys in Rajasthan, India. There, they slipped a monkey out of the herd. What is not known by the monkeys, it is a tiny monkey that infiltrated it is actually a robot. Surveillance robot replica of monkeys placed in the middle of the herd to study the behavior of the division of parenting in langur monkeys.

At first, all went well. The monkeys thought that a robot replica is one of them. Some adult monkeys approached the robot replica of it, tried to check out and try feeding. Then, an adult monkey robot holding a replica of it and bring it into his arms. According to scientists, these behaviors is one way of parenting langur monkeys.

Suddenly, the robot replica of it regardless of the monkey's arms. Robot replica of it fell heavily to the ground and can no longer move the camera in his eyes but could still be recording. The monkeys were soon running around trying to save 'little monkey' poor. There were her close but because it did not also move, they decided 'baby monkey' was gone. At that moment, the atmosphere of emotion spreading among the herd langur monkeys. Herd of monkeys shrieked as quietly voiced their grief over the departure of one of their flock.

Adult monkeys hugging each other and calming one another greetings on the death of 'little monkey' was. While the monkeys were younger revolved around the replica of the robot, the robot touching and still trying to wake him.

"They reacted as if it was their own child's death. There is a sense of deep sorrow among each other," says the narrator.

"We feel that the sudden silence enveloped them. All the commotion turned into sadness when the robot falls and thought dead," said producer Matthew Gordon as quoted by the BBC and Bored Panda.

Yes, these recordings show animals in the wildlife community not unlike humans. They have a sense of empathy, grief, and loss when one of the herd was gone. Through these experiments, scientists menyoba understand that animals do not like what we thought. They can also be touched, they also have feelings for each other.

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