How Hierarchy Decides Everything in Toque Macaque Society

Toque macaques operate on a strict hierarchical system that determines everything from mating rights to the order of when you're allowed to feed. Break those rules, and you'll have to answer to the alpha.
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[@AlibraMentality]

… that was very sad. I don’t have any words to describe that. That’s horrible 🥺 poor Anna

[@HekHale]

That's macaques. Hate these creatures

[@A2Preservations]

Poor Anna :(

[@thetrinialphafemaletrini6665]

Who is their barber?

[@ReginaRR]

Ahahahahaa, was gonna ask about the bangs 😅😉

[@pamelaibarra790]

Guy tang

[@EuniceUSALIFEstyle]

@@ReginaRR 🤣🤣🤣

[@dianebays5484]

Omfg. I was just thinking the same! They all have the same hair do.

[@jedicraftmaster2426]

True alpha

[@stormgirl09]

Yikes! They are more like humans than i thought! They have their own version of "kings/queens/elites" and even "peseants"! Poor peseant Anna....

[@NinoNiemanThe1st]

...and 3rd world people still believe there are people at the top and the bottom, and it will never change. Just ask the Dalits in India!

[@randomgirl3396]

Lords and ladies

[@keithhunt5328]

@@NinoNiemanThe1st what about blacks and whites in US?

[@NinoNiemanThe1st]

@@keithhunt5328 Interesting question , but I think the possibilities for blacks and whites in the US are still something most 3rd world people could only dream of still unfortunately.

[@keithhunt5328]

@@NinoNiemanThe1st I meant there is a clear racial hierarchy in American culture. It might not be overtly started but it still is underground.

[@jhyland87]

Those bowl cuts are hilarious

[@jdlc903]

Poor Anna:(.she keeps going and is even having a kid.

[@Wingedmagician]

This is like a trippy metaphor for life

[@Steve197201]

And then a lion walks in and shows them who's really at the top of the dominance hierarchy.

[@Daddy53751]

Wow! So this is what monkeys that are NOT morbidly obese look like.😳

[@danielle_m]

poor Ana can't even have food. This video displays the same problem with human hierarchy/social structure which never been fair. My heart hurts for those on lower ranks struggling to get little of something just to survive.

[@EuniceUSALIFEstyle]

😭

[@Blanktarn]

Lol

[@Daddy53751]

“All animals are equal. Some are just more equal than others.” Quote from some guy. 😉

[@Daddy53751]

@@Clin-cu6ec it's a book by George Orwell called Animal Farm.

[@sandragizzo3251]

Love that one females bangs 😆 Makes me sad that Anna can't even get a leftover? She seems alone... sin.

[@AzlianaLyana]

Feast on the sweet large jackfruit! That's big enough to share with everyone :)

[@Arbear64]

Sweet? Are you talking about the Jackfruit? I am guessing you never tasted a Jack fruit have you?

[@smileysmile4937]

@@Arbear64ripe jackfriuit are sweet

[@carrowood9393]

@@Arbear64I'm m. ,

[@jenniferle1828]

Poor Anna..

[@L1lCheet0]

Anna's story made me tear up

[@MarcConradReyes]

why make us cry?

[@bombaybead3759]

So sad to watch Anna! The higher ranking monkeys should have pity on her because she's pregnant and being pregnant is not her choice...but then such is the rule of the jungle! 😔

[@DiddyCanFly]

Monkeys have always been my favorite animal and just when I thought I couldn’t love them anymore than I do, I see this clip where they’re rocking mullets and bowl cuts.

[@Steve197201]

If I was there, I'd pick a fresh jackfruit and share it with Anna.

[@MattSamson83]

She would be beaten by the other monkeys if you did that.

[@Steve197201]

@@MattSamson83 They'd probably beat me up too. I wouldn't want to mess with those guys!

[@Pavol-Pivka]

Just like humans. Higher rank. Lower rank. But we use guns instead of our teeth to get our ranking.

[@Prometheus7272]

Hierarchy defines life in all animal species

[@ir8free]

some animals are asocial and live alone.

[@genericname7020]

​@@ir8free like sharks.

[@junetakesover]

@@ir8free yes, like me

[@azfarhameedkhan7117]

Ok i am sorry to say, but who else agrees that they have very strong thick cast system like hindu society?

[@sandracmyers]

I know Anna, I know

[@fthemps]

They're barbers done them all dirty.

[@Banana-im9gi]

Imagine having that haircut for good

[@Diogenes323]

They all look like they got a bad hair cut

[@Arbear64]

Kim Jun hair cut

[@sheilabroussard51]

I have a question someone please tell me if low rank monkeys ever eat the same food at a meal at some point? Or do they not give ones like anna any?

[@DiddyCanFly]

It depends on the food source. If they had 2 Jackfruits then she would definitely get some but only having 1 meant that there was none by the time her turn cam.

[@johnnyyang5980]

I would like one of them baby monkeys as a pet.

[@lennarthagen3638]

Thats called abuse,, monkeys are wild and social primates ,not pets

[@APsGTG]

Same

[@hithisismyusername]

So you’d like to take it away from its mother and life in the wild? 😢 Just buy a baby monkey from a breeder. They’re going to be sold as pets anyways. But these animals that are wild, they just need to be left in the wild. It makes me sad when they get poached in their mothers are killed.

[@emmy182]

I WOULD DIE FOR ANNA

[@esotericyetti327]

Is that a jack fruit?

[@amalraj3535]

It is. The narrator even says it.

[@luditebreaker5065]

Wheres UNICEF when you need them🙄

[@xavierartis7458]

Their social order honestly disgusts me.

[@apoorvsalar9452]

It mirrors human society.

[@lauraanderson8785]

@@apoorvsalar9452 No it doesn't? The only thing that sounded vaguely like human society was the bloodline thing, that reminded me of royal families. Humans otherwise don't really have such rigid ranks and in humans males and females are inherently equal

[@genericname7020]

​@@lauraanderson8785 It looks like their ranking is based on age.

[@tytoalba7406]

​@@lauraanderson8785we are equal only thanks to the technology and the abundance of resources that we have. But if we didn't have all this, our world would be like the world of macaques.

[@jdrosy4414]

Dig the Moe Howard hairdo.

[@mncedisimncube5155]

Poor Anna just broke my heart

[@duck1889]

I'm high af right now and their bowl cuts making me laugh so lard.

[@The70sGal-mf2xc]

Is anyone else feeling sorry for Anna?

[@gloriabrawldy5325]

Videos are way to short and leaves you hanging

[@lennarthagen3638]

The fruit looks so yummy

[@Bilytkid]

It is, but it has a horrible smell

[@MEEEEEE]

anna's life matter :)

[@inmotion81]

How can I watch more of this

[@susansantos1010]

You can watch long tail macaques at Angkor wat in Cambodia.

[@Cereal_Killer007]

What fruit is that? Its huge

[@ir8free]

jackfruit?

[@Cereal_Killer007]

@@ir8free is that what it is? Wonder if we have it in America

[@spinoraptor35]

Jackfruit

[@brendabailey4319]

They all have a better hair stylist than me 😂

[@avengersnewbie2348]

Its a family. Not alpha, beta or gamma

[@spinoraptor35]

This reminds me of the pack that Alpha leads in survivor dogs

[@jamebrooke894]

Sounds like America, the rich, the career politicians, the upper classes, then the workers

[@slayer40sw]

they should just call them Bowl-Cut macaques..seriously nature really punished them with that goofy hair...🤣

[@peggygerard3636]

Lol!! That hair....omg😂🤣

[@WeeNat313]

Lol their hair

[@talkindurinthemovie]

Yall can share

[@ryankinney8347]

Man there hair trips me out..lol its like they went to a barber shop and got a messed up bowl cut

[@JessNW0lfG4NG]

That's a Taquache Macaque?

[@jenicebuntin533]

Finally, a troop that has a true hierarchy/rank system; may not seem fair, but at least it's structure. Just my opinion.

[@joanlopez5711]

This is cool

[@UptownMarty]

Where is Anna’s husband?!?🤬

[@emilysingh3824]

if they will not even share food with her then why stay with thee group. just go live alone.they cant be on top if animals at the bottom dont exist 😊

[@tytoalba7406]

if she lives alone, she will be killed by predators, but this is even less dangerous than other simians, the worst enemy of any simian is another simian.

[@Peculiar223]

These are y’all relatives.

[@GerVlad]

Anna😢

[@knoxvillehermitfreemoviesm3625]

How can they tell each other apart since they all look the same?

[@riverstone9005]

They all have different features just like humans. They can probably also tell by how each one carries themselves. High ranking ones probably strut around with their heads held high. Low ranking monkeys probably cower and avoid confrontation.

[@knoxvillehermitfreemoviesm3625]

Very informative thanks for your reply.

[@sheilabroussard51]

So ones like Anna never get any?

[@chakrich5816]

Link of full documentary please.... any body 🙏🙏

[@riverstone9005]

I watched it once but I had to pay for it. Unfortunately Smithsonian usually only gives short clips.

[@monalebon8016]

Nice haircut.

[@calvinduke4810]

Simple jack 😂😂

[@TimSchuchman]

Simple Jack?

[@culkingsed]

Reminds me of human society. 😒

[@graciepascual5253]

Girls: omg josh is so handsome Josh 0:52

[@alainmessi6371]

Ну и прически у самцов как у балвана😂

[@josephforte2750]

after a good eat need a good smoke

[@Jasper-sn6fm]

Just like the British Royal Family and their pheasants (British Public)

[@bensmith4487]

Cool I love science

[@5jjt]

Ana, the troop's lowest female, why did she not eat of the fruit also? There was more than enough. Does anyone suspect that she did, but they made it seem as if she hadn't just to add drama?

[@carljung2]

Do humans have heirarchy?

[@tytoalba7406]

Yes

[@tytoalba7406]

Of course

[@teebittamhiles6649]

But the males had to break it open and do all the hard work…while the lower rank has the fruit cut open for them.

[@craigson]

Nm

[@michaeldoyle2725]

These are the ugliest monkeys

[@ariell6489]

The only monkeys I've seen that are uglier than these overgrown rats are baboons YUCK

[@todddavidson1332]

they are not rats, they are monkeys

[@eunicestone838]

Hahaha bad haircut. Funny how nature makes it so perfect.

[@cherylberenice169]

Useless greedy tree rats

[@zzzzz2875]

They are such disgusting things.

[@jayjones7149]

Lol

[@richardhoepfner1633]

Socialism at it's finest.

[@christinaheuer7169]

Richard Hoepfner quite the opposite

[@carmenpeters728]

Socialism is an EQUAL DISTRIBUTION OF GOODS. What you're thinking is capitalists

[@AW-qz4kk]

Carmen Peters nope still socialism. everything is distributed not purchased which benefits the top ranking and barely the bottom ranking people. north korea and Venezuela are good examples. the original commenter is right.

[@neoisis9373]

No this is more like a feudal or caste system.

[@ir8free]

Angel Westbrook feudalism?

[@franksckupakus6138]

This woman’s voice is sickening

[@H_savv4848]

there are no humans in the vid what woman are u talking about?