Monkeys harassing women in Kenya

This is an interesting story. There is no mention of the sex of the monkeys involved. The fact that the monkeys are not afraid of women is probably good proof of the old hunter/gatherer theory that human males hunted other animals while human females tended camp and farmed. Such was the arrangement in many Native American cultures when they met Europeans.

Europeans actually thought that Native American men were "lazy" because in Europe, hunting was a leisure activity and not a means to provide meat protein. But New World cultures did not domesticate many animals, probably because there weren't many to domesticate. Dogs, of course - all cultures, actually, have domesticated dogs - and llamas in South America. The theory goes that humans inhabited the New World for only about 10,000 years, only 10% of the existence of our specific species. So Old World inhabitants had 90,000 extra years to domesticate cattle, pigs, sheep, goats, and birds for their meat protein. And the majority of our culture was probably like that of our ancestors, so other animals have adapted. Human males are to be feared because they were the ones actively seeking animals to kill.

I don't think these monkeys are "sexually harassing" the women, but they're doing
something. They may just be communicating that they know it is a female human or something. It is amazing how intelligent the monkeys are. I wonder what would happen if a woman in this village/town/area just shot at a monkey. Maybe then the monkeys would know that the human females mean business too. I mean they're smart enough to communicate about poisoned food, and other things, so they seem to have
some kind of cognitive ability. Cognitive might be the wrong word. I hope there is more primate research going on. Maybe someday, we'll break the species barrier and manage to communicate with monkeys such as these. Lets teach the monkeys how to grow their own crops - or at least help out - so they won't be such a menace.