This hypothesis was wrong in a good way. Otome, being a female, safely returned to the group, but Ryu (a male) who tried to rejoin later had difficulty adjusting. I now believe that it 's more about the inherent qualities (personality) of the baby monkey than whether it's male or female . Otome had a fearless personality. She would sense danger and quickly run away, and she could judge the situation to know where she was safe. During feeding time, she would stay behind us zookeepers to avoid being targeted by other monkeys. Eventually, she started to hang out not only with Goron but also with a powerful female family in the group. Usually, doing something like that would get you treated as a nuisance and threatened, but Otome had an exquisite sense of distance. Based solely on videos I've seen online, Punch seems to possess similar qualities to Otome. However, Ryu (male) was quite timid. When other monkeys tried to reach out to him, he would scream, "Aaaah, aaaah," which would only attract more attackers. Goron was still alive at that time and initially protected Ryu, but eventually he stopped caring about Ryu. The other monkeys noticed this and attacked Ryu without hesitation, even when Ryu was right behind Goron. Even when Ryu was screaming, Goron would silently continue eating his food. Goron was quite old at that time and may have been preoccupied with his own affairs. Or perhaps he couldn't hear Ryu very well. The ones who were attacking were the monkeys a little older than their peers, but the one I thought was particularly childish was Akira (male), who had entered his growth spurt and was rapidly developing into a male. He dragged the monkey around mercilessly, and we were all stunned, thinking, "Enough already!" Another monkey that showed no restraint was Akira's mother, Chobi (female). We often talked about how personality is definitely hereditary. #JapaneseMacaque #SnowMonkey #MacaqueRehabilitation #PrimateCare #MonkeyBehaviour #WildlifeDiscussion #AnimalWelfare #MacaqueCommunity #PrimateResearch #JapaneseMonkeys #MonkeyFamily #GroupIntegration #UnderstandingPrimates #NatureDiscussion #Hypothesis #AnimalBehaviour #MonkeyLife #RespectWildlife #ZooLife #PunchTheMacaque Matsuura (Acoustic Cafe)...........

Send them to Africa😂🤣 most celebs who "go back", come back changed. They will see that they are taking advantage of the life we built in the States🐺💯🇺🇸 #MonkeyBehaviour #MudDuks quack quack

Typical monkeybehaviour 🤦🏿‍♂️

#Degeneracy #blackculture #monkeybehaviour

बादरबारे केही रोचक जानकारी #rayopani #Monkeybehaviour

I hope Jamaicans dont catch the #CapitolHillFever as we caught the #BlackLivesMatter fever & kicked off our own version of #GhettoLivesMatter demonstration. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 #CopyCat business. #MonkeyBehaviour thing

Since our last rains were >7wks ago and the dams are dry, it’s been interesting to see the dietary change in our troops 🐒. They now spend the morning gorging on juicy spekbooms (Portulacaria afra🌱, which also help fight air pollution!) #monkeybehaviour #fieldresearch

Me n my Mickey sling bag 🙊🙈😜✌🏻😅 #Singaporediaries #Cartoonfreek #yettogrowup #monkeybehaviour… instagram.com/p/BZQtmZMhMaN/

You scratch my back I will scratch your back ....#Monkeybehaviour...Say गणपती बाप्पा मोरया...

We saw this thing called christmas on american tv shows.......and we mimick. #MonkeyBehaviour