https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn27675-monkeys-cosy-alliance-with-wolves-looks-like-domestication/

Monkeys’ cosy alliance with wolves looks like domestication

In the alpine grasslands of eastern Africa, Ethiopian wolves and gelada monkeys are giving peace a chance. The geladas – a type of baboon – tolerate wolves wandering right through the middle of their herds, while the wolves ignore potential meals of baby geladas in favour of rodents, which they can catch more easily when the monkeys are present.

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The article is a couple of years old but worth looking at.

However, the geladas don’t seem to get anything from the relationship, since the wolves are unlikely to deter other predators such as leopards or feral dogs, he says

OK, I can understand that a wolf may not want to take on a leopard, but I wold have thought that feral dogs would have been wary of them.

sibeen said:

However, the geladas don’t seem to get anything from the relationship, since the wolves are unlikely to deter other predators such as leopards or feral dogs, he says

OK, I can understand that a wolf may not want to take on a leopard, but I wold have thought that feral dogs would have been wary of them.

Wolves have an enhanced sense of smell and hearing that would provide additional warning to the geladas. Geladas are vegetarian with some insects consumed in the process, their food is more like ungulates than primates, which the association with wolves would be a distinct advantage, as it is to a mixed heard of grazing animals.

I shouldn’t have used “baboons” in the Subject line. One of the reference articles used this term but these gelada are not now considered baboons.

dv said:

I shouldn’t have used “baboons” in the Subject line. One of the reference articles used this term but these gelada are not now considered baboons.

OK.

They are Babbonish.

At the very least, what the Gelada’s get out of it is that they have one less predator to worry about.