Inter-species communication

Wild monkeys in Karnataka's Bandipur National Park are deliberately communicating with people using novel behaviour, shows a study published on recently in scientific reports, an open access online journal for primary research on natural and clinical Sciences. this unusual interspecies communication is happening between bonnet  (Peninsula Indian Monkey) and tourist with the sentence using new gesture and sounds to request for food

Bandipur Mcaque's four types of deliberate food requesting behaviour apart from the "coo-call" , they oriented their bodies in a tourist line of sight to catch the persons attention . If the food carrying tourist met a macaque gaze , The monkey would extend its hand in an obvious request for food the monkey also continuously monitors people during these food requesting events but stop this scanning when they received food.

First for wild monkeys

While some captive monkeys, such as chimpanzees and baboons do show such deliberate communication towards their human care givers, This has never been documented in wild monkeys before.

So the report suggestive of adaptation of  higher cognitive capabilities of bonnet macaques for deliberate interspecies communication and evolving environmental trends of making human centric tendencies supported by the nature, and making nonhuman primates to undergo behavioural adoptation for their survival in the drought condition.