An Alpha Female Kidnaps Son of Lower Status Macaque

A low-ranking macaque female looks on in horror as a higher-ranked female simply takes her son for herself. If he's not returned to his mother soon, to nurse, he could dehydrate.
From the Series: Monkey Island: A Mother's Tale bit.ly/2OKN2Fo

[@Lissy-B]

I've seen this full video before. She gets her baby back, unharmed, soon after this video cuts off.

[@Criseih]

Thank you, I was so anxious about the baby !

[@gardener4892]

thanks

[@nvk1001]

Good thanks!

[@gersongalan133]

After Sarah take away again the baby and never return.

[@Amburmist]

Whew. Good. Thanks. I was so full of angst after the video cuts off, yellin at the screen "give her her baby back!!" Glad to hear she eventually did.

[@ThePasu88]

This was more entertaining than the Kardashians

[@BeeJayyDaDon]

Ur white and basic we get it

[@monicadavis4901]

The Passu88..Lol!

[@sanakimchi88]

Also more gag inducing! They were digging at lice the whole video 🤢🤮

[@goead]

@PannsApprentice pfft he’s right

[@GSCannon]

Concur! Watching anything is more interesting than watching them!

[@riverstone9005]

I feel so bad for Anna. Right after her baby is swooped up she looks around as if she is looking for someone to help. I'm glad she got her baby back.

[@patriciasanches9545]

At what point she got him back? I've watched the whole video, haven't seen she got him back?

[@riverstone9005]

@@patriciasanches9545 In the full documentary it shows that she got him back

[@noclu4u384]

@@riverstone9005 link ?

[@tracynormand2151]

@@patriciasanches9545 the link is in the description box!!

[@esotericyetti327]

On multiple occasions I've seen them kidnap babies and keep them till they starve to death. This is definitely a typical behavior. It Happens all the time.

[@cameronmalchow1837]

Not typical behaviour for this species of macaque.

[@rebeccacloud-heinle6863]

Helpo comes to mind as the poster child of Macaque kidnapping tendencies...

[@June-tb4vi]

Your like..Ho Hum 😂

[@chuckdeuces911]

@@cameronmalchow1837 not typical in any macaque. This dude is out hunting monkey abuse channels so to him it's confirmation but it is very rare to see them die especially if their mother is alive. What this guy doesn't know or understand is those videos coming out of Thailand, Cambodia, and Malaysia those videos are very very extenuating circumstances. First off, these videographers who run the channel they have major skin in the game. They run this monkey scam where they are like farmers of monkeys. They have huge networks of people who raise and breed macaques. They're also some stealing from the wild too and they reintroduce the babies to other communities after hand raising them, bathing them incessantly, making them wear diapers, and making them fight for food. Then they take them all from age just born to adult getting ready to die and they make them actors in some natural setting. They abandon all these monkeys and absolute chaos ensues and luckily they are their to record it. They are also feeding these troops to the point that some of them (sweetpea) were so big they couldn't do anything but barely get around. I'm talking weighing 60 pounds when they should weigh 20 at their age... so in those circumstances also female adults live longer than normal and have more babies than normal because of the food security then they have babies and go crazy or die then there is a live infant running around. Sometimes someone too young assumes the responsibility and aren't capable of meeting the needs of a newborn. Now that I've seriously thought about it, I've never seen a kidnapping (which is technically called aunting) turn into a death if the baby has a mother....

[@Mr.Thermistor7228]

Good! I hope they all get kidnapped

[@SuperMandibleclaw]

Look at me, look at me! I am the mother now

[@stephenbrand5661]

If that isn't a typical behaviour then why are there so many videos of that exact same behaviour on YT?

[@furzekake1]

these shorts are making me furious. why dont you post the full video`?

[@Tendeza_]

These are previews for their series, how many times does this have to be said??

[@nepadron]

THIS IS A TEASER. its to TEASE you into PURCHASING the episode.

[@kitterzy]

This is where you google the hell out of this and someone eventually links you to what happened. Usually works for their airplane disaster vids. You didn’t think they would give you this for free when they can get ppl who use cable/satellite/internet subscriptions/purchases to pay for it.

[@5jjt]

Because it would destroy their fake narrative. They imagine the most dramatic story given what the money's give them to put in a video. For example, the story is the baby is kidnapped, well, no it wasn't. If this video ran just a little longer, it would show the.mother gets the baby back. They tried this same stunt on another video claiming the alphas eat the found fruit first, then the females, but there was this pathetic, the lowest mother monkey who couldn't eat if the fruit Because of her lowly status, therefor she at bug's and grass. Bologna. She ate the fruit right after the camera cuts off

[@speedwagon1824]

​@@5jjtlmao come on

[@Porusi98]

Where do we watch the full video ?

[@danaburkhart5743]

That was great footage just wasn't long enough thanks for sharing.

[@LordDreggar]

Great footage is when they throw the little rats off the top Of tall trees

[@soob7707]

this just looks like an auntie spending time with her nephew

[@joywilkins64]

Hey Smithsonian! Why don't you guys ever show what happens in the end? A 2:30 minute segment does not show us much. Besides most of us here, don't watch TV anymore and others can't afford it these days. Please give us more than 2 minute videos on a particular subject! Thanks, for considering my suggestion!

[@j.j.8741]

The Smithsonian is just as corrupt as the gov’t is & deliberately withhold truth from the public regardless of subject matter!!

[@tracynormand2151]

the link is in the description box dude!

[@esthersingson5375]

Where can we find a complete documentary?

[@davidcrispin4482]

Animals just being animals... and we're over here "narrating" their lifes 😂😂👏👏

[@timothyw815]

David Crispin This is a good point lol.

[@Rizal12061986]

well, guess what? great apes are animals, and those great apes are consists of: gorilla, orangutan, chimp, and human. so yeah, you're also animal

[@MistaMaine.]

What's wrong with that? Its more interesting than many human lives I can tell you that.... Even mines. ☝🙆😆 besides humans do this too many times, so I guess u can say we R being animals too right? Just without the "narrating".

[@nicolinadoe6427]

Anna doesn't look too shocked

[@bmarie8695]

On Amazon prime I signed up for the Smithsonian channel but monkey island was not on there. Why??

[@waitaminute2015]

You can watch the ververt forest foundation on KZbin, or nature life monkey on KZbin.

[@NavjotKasukurthy]

Well, does she get him back?!

[@PapakatsuTom]

No

[@sarahconnor5346]

Tom Nguyen ☹️

[@angrydonutface7420]

Yes, she does.

[@CognizantCheddar]

yes

[@melt6303]

Yes she sure does.

[@kmkaero4661]

I love reading these comments - it shows how something as simple as a monkey video can be used to invoke primal emotions in human beings. Kidnapping is a normal part of macaque life that is found in the natural environment. The mother already knows how to get her baby back - see her following the baby around, as soon as the baby gets hungry it will automatically seek out its mother for feeding. She just has to sit and wait for her baby to get hungry.

[@lagatha1037]

The kidnapper will make the decision whether to let the offspring return to its mom. The kidnapper is high ranking.

[@BostonStew]

Except it’s not normal behavior and the narrator from Smithsonian in the video who surely is more educated on this subjected than you stated that it is not normal or typical macaque behavior. Lol.

[@josiealvarado2296]

High rank macaque’s will kidnap and starve low rank infants. In an attempt to keep low rank Infant population low. To try and ensure the survival of their own offspring!

[@ak_2117]

It does happen a lot actually. And no the baby doesn't make the decision to go eat. If the baby starts hooting for it's mom too much it will get attacked physically by the kidnapper (who quite possibly could be a family member and/or male) however, sadly, quite a bit will starve to death. It's a big deal in the Macaque world.😢

[@alessandramunoz7557]

that escalated quickly

[@frankiegirl5207]

Cliff hanger. What will Anna do next? Will the baby survive? Find out on the next episode

[@AnantTripathionline]

Where is the sequel man ?

[@stephaniecarter8495]

Where is full clip at

[@ardila7119]

What happened with the rest of the doumentary.

[@karensteinman3289]

Where do you get yout informatiom kidnapping happens all the time

[@noexit4458]

"Anna watches in shock." take this narrative down a notch can we?

[@speedwagon1824]

No

[@theunchosenone6807]

Got mad into it and my blood was pumping as i worried about the baby

[@joecrammond6221]

please upload what happened next?

[@jasminebower2305]

Where is part 2

[@ashleymckenna2808]

High ranked macaques kidnap low ranking infants all the time. It reaffirms their rules of hierarchy. Infants are also severly punished if they break the rules. Anyone who has watched macaque videos can tell you that is how these animals live

[@PETTYKEN-kc6no]

She chillen given that girl a break

[@yourlocaltrash8771]

They know the drill and will just sit there until the other monkey releases the baby.

[@thetrinialphafemaletrini6665]

I thought they were applying makeup at the beginning

[@stqtv2502]

I like your video

[@916Pashok]

it's tough out there in the wild...

[@devins7457]

So.... What happened, did the peasent overthrow and behead the tyrant?

[@HotTakeAndy]

Wait... does she get him back? How can you just end it right there!?

[@yunanuna210]

Im jealous of the haircut

[@Kateyangyuqing]

Is it kidnapping? Or is she just playing mummy with the baby and will let him go back to his mum when he's too thirsty? Is it a case of "it takes a village to raise a child"? Since they're in the same colony, she's not going to take him and keep him in a basement or soenthing.

[@selenapink98]

hello?? wheres episode 2??

[@daithiocinnsealach3173]

Is kidnapping too strong a word? And then the ominous music.

[@ryann2710]

It’s totally typical

[@amybradshaw5347]

I would like to see the mothers get food and not the kidnappers and see how the kidnappers act that would be good to see lol

[@jamebrooke894]

This is privilege it's even in the animal kingdom, but those who say it's nature, it don't make it right.

[@kravist518]

They do adopt quickly if the mother dies or disappears

[@Suggestion_Box_Full]

they look like the king from Joan of ark

[@Linda-nr5cb]

U go girl❤

[@JusticeFortheSilenced]

This is the troop in Disney's Monkey Kingdom

[@Smurphy415]

It’s one of the most typical behaviors 😂😂

[@danaporumboiu527]

Their hairdo ..🤣🤣🤣

[@alenagribkova1629]

Спасибо за фильм😅

[@sharilyn8262]

So what happened to the baby? Did the mother get the baby back or did it starve to death? Intervention?

[@midgetman4206]

Probably

[@CognizantCheddar]

She got it back. The kidnapper lost interest in her toy.

[@Franz19970]

Nice haircuts

[@tatianai6986]

Жаль, что нет русского перевода

[@TishBaileyMusic]

So what happened? What was the point?

[@franksckupakus6138]

Why do they feel it is necessary to lie and say it is not typical behavior? It is typical behavior, otherwise they wouldn’t be talking about it. It’s been studied many many many times. All monkey Speciesdo this.

[@365_crimea]

Мелким пофиг к кому прицепиться, им главное пожрать.

[@rikudousennin8359]

U can make 3 seasonal serial from theese better than Neftlix

[@amandabear328]

No wait what happened next

[@barid302]

In every group there is kidnapping. and it is typical For them to kidnap and be cruel to them. That was a waste of film.

[@moysiu3452]

I know macaques are intelligent. So is Sara just selfish or doesn't understand that the baby can't get any milk from her and she is starving it??

[@2Sugarbears]

So what happened?

[@CognizantCheddar]

Child returned. Alpha female lost interest.

[@Leyla7292]

I wunder the same

[@marypevitt174]

Watching the grass grow is better than watching the KADASIANS

[@vanillagorilla6091]

Anna got that Karen cut

[@juancarlosgomezlozano7129]

Mona.y.retoño.

[@grambag7956]

but amazingly the baby lives for 15 days on the high-ranking minor and then finally succumbs to starvation. and it is not rare 4 adolescents to kidnap minors it happens near every day sometimes resulting in the unfortunate death of the abducted baby

[@Xessa82]

It's rare for this species of macaques, not all species. They weren't speaking about other species, just Toque Macaques. Every species is different and yes there are other species where kidnapping is super common. Maybe next time actually pay attention and listen to what they say.

[@frankpalancio8471]

Not typical behavior? You might want to rethink that. I see kidnapping all the time on the cambodian monkey channels..

[@omarocon1698]

Snipe them. LOL.

[@treymansfield7919]

0:26 😂

[@Twiggymassacre10]

i need to know what happened! anyone!?!?! hello?

[@elijahgrau2448]

Omg I hate when they do that

[@nepadron]

It's a teaser you ignoramus.

[@CognizantCheddar]

The mother got the kid back.

[@Wyonative08]

@@nepadron NICE, is that how you speak to everyone? Did your mama not teach you some manners? Who do you think you are to talk to anyone in that manner? Maybe your parents should have paid for you to attend an etiquette course. Rude, disrespectful individual. 🙄🤨😯

[@GyrlBlaque]

Did Anna get her baby back

[@midgetman4206]

Pretty sure

[@midgetman4206]

That it didn't YEET

[@CognizantCheddar]

Yes.

[@harxmoond]

This is so wrong. How can you keep us in suspense? Will we ever know the fate of the baby?

[@RileySoares]

LOL

[@waitaminute2015]

9 times out of 10 the baby is let go.

[@j.j.8741]

This is such over dramatized nonsense! They can go days without milk and/or liquids!!

[@kravist518]

I’ve read that Toque macaques are the some of the most social of all macaques and that they are fine in sharing in the raising of babies

[@metalbutton4956]

Kidnapping is actually very common among macaques. Happens when females are soo desperate to display maternal instincts that they will take a baby of lower ranked females just to feel motherly. Many times tho, the kidnappings go wrong and baby dies of malnutrition/starvation since kidnapper doesn't have milk to keep baby alive. Newborns can only go a few days without milk or they will die.

[@autumnroxielynn2423]

i know for sure that barbary macaques use the infants as a social tool and are alot more lenient with fellow monkeys "aunting", much moreso than longtails, pigtails, and japanese macaques, is this also true for toques? their doesnt seem to be alot of information or videos on this species, at least nowhere near as much as the others

[@kaseymigliaccio2519]

@@metalbutton4956 but not THIS particular species, they VERY RARELY kidnap infants within the group.

[@barbaraho6048]

Hate these things

[@liljgil2281]

that's not true kidnapping happens all the time in macaque groups

[@ir8free]

Lil Jgil not in toque macaques

[@a.walters123]

Blind hierarchy is a lower intellect instinct. As humans have evolved and changed over thousands of years, hierarchy has slowly diminished. These monkeys still implement it because they haven’t evolved towards a full understanding of compassion and teamwork.

[@atthebluebus]

"Kidnapping" that lasted only 5 minutes. Teaser footage video BS

[@anglingnvirginia1346]

Shara could be kidnapping the baby so she knows it will die, that way she knows there is food for her baby

[@michaelmoore676]

The kidnapper will go on its way no injury . Now you take a mango and you are getting a beat down . Shows there priorities . Number one is food number 2 is food and number 3 is food . Sad disgusting tree rats