I did not know that! That's great! (And I believe it of those darn vervets. Little bandidos.)
I did know that certain troops of Japanese macaques have developed a taste for fruit seasoned with hot spring mineral water. This came up in an anthropology class discussing cultural transmission in primates; apparently an individual in one group discovered it and showed it to the others. No monkey outside of that population has figured it out, though.
So yeah, it seems to be inborn--but damn, human cooking gets ridiculously COMPLICATED.
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Date: 2010-04-13 09:36 am (UTC)I did know that certain troops of Japanese macaques have developed a taste for fruit seasoned with hot spring mineral water. This came up in an anthropology class discussing cultural transmission in primates; apparently an individual in one group discovered it and showed it to the others. No monkey outside of that population has figured it out, though.
So yeah, it seems to be inborn--but damn, human cooking gets ridiculously COMPLICATED.