If You Give a Monkey an Onion…

Tufted capuchin monkey. Wald1siedel, via Wikimedia Commons. Distributed under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.

Researchers coin the term “social medication” to describe social anointing in capuchin monkeys. The behavior, in which the animals vigorously rub smelly substances into their own fur and onto the bodies of others, appears to have both medicinal and social functions.

Read more at my Animal Minds blog: Why Do Monkeys Rub Themselves, and Others, with Onions?