Hundredth monkey effect - Wikipedia
网页The hundredth monkey effect is an esoteric idea claiming that a new behavior or idea is spread rapidly by unexplained means from one group to all related groups once a critical number of members of one group exhibit the new behavior or acknowledge the new idea. The behavior was said to propagate even to groups that are physically separated and ...
Japanese Monkeys (Japanese Macaque) on Koshima Island - Koshima …
网页The Japanese Macaque is endemic to Japan, and distributed from Aomori pref. to Yakushima Island, while the distribution is fragmented in some regions. This species is known as the northernmost non-human primate in the world. In Koshima Island the macaques live in 2 groups now.
Sweet-potato washing revisited: 50th anniversary of the
网页2015年9月14日 · A new habit of washing sweet-potato originated in a troop of monkeys living on Koshima Islet, Japan. It then spread throughout this particular troop. The number of monkeys washing potatoes gradually increased to 99 individuals.
The Clean Food Culture of Koshima Macaque Monkeys
网页The Clean Food Culture of Koshima Macaque Monkeys. In 1953 on the island of Koshima, a primatologist was leaving sweet potatoes on the shore for the monkeys to eat. One smart monkey, a 1...
What Japan's Wild Snow Monkeys Can Teach Us About Animal …
网页At Arashiyama near Kyoto, some monkeys started to play with stones in the 1970s and the behavior spread in the same pattern as sweet-potato washing at Koshima and bathing at Jigokudani: first...
A Review of 50 Years of Research on the Japanese Monkeys of Koshima …
网页The Koshima group of Japanese macaques is unique in that nearly 40% of the offspring die within their first year. Such a high first year mortality may be the result of poor nutritional conditions prevailing on the island, in turn resulting from there being a large population confined to such a small island (Mori 1979; Watanabe et al. 1992).
Koshima Field Station, Wildlife Research Center, Kyoto University
网页Koshima is a small island located in Miyazaki prefecture, the southwest of Japan, off the coast of Kyushu. On Koshima Island there are approximately 100 Japanese monkeys (Macaca fuscata), well known for the behavior of washing sweet potatoes.
Kinji Imanishi and 60 years of Japanese primatology
网页2008年7月22日 · Imanishi and his team, divided into several parties, went to 19 sites of wild monkeys, such as Koshima, Takasakiyama, Arashiyama and Yakushima, in the following 7 years. In total, they spent more than 1,500 days in …
Kinji Imanishi and 60 years of Japanese primatology - Cell Press
网页2008年7月22日 · On December 3rd, 1948, only three years after the Second World War, Kinji Imanishi (1902–1992) went to Koshima island to study the wild Japanese monkeys. Imanishi was flanked by two young students, Jun'ichiro Itani (1926–2002) and Shunzo Kawamura (1924–2003).
A Review of 50 Years of Research on the Japanese Monkeys of Koshima …
网页2008年1月1日 · We review over 60 years of Japanese ethnography of Koshima monkeys, which indicate that food-washing behaviors (e.g., of sweet potato tubers and wheat grains) seem to have increased in complexity...