The Forbidden Circle Game
played by the vervet monkeys of Loskop Dam nature reserve, South-Africa
The last paper we published about our market experiments withg vervets was: Fruteau, C., van Damme, E., & Noë, R. (2013). Vervet monkeys solve a multiplayer “Forbidden Circle Game” by queuing to learn restraint. Current Biology, 23(8), 665-670.
This is perhaps the best paper I ever authored, but not necessarily the easiest to understand. The most interesting part for the more theoretically inclined, is the game theoretical analysis by Eric van Damme, guided by my knowledge of the animals.
Fruteau etal 2013 forbidden circle (RNsite).mp4This video shows one of the trials of the experiment
Below I present the story in the form I also use for talks;
the first file is a PowerPoint (open with Google Slides or download and view with PowerPoint or similar software)
the second a PDF with the same content .
he next two PDFs are the paper itself and the Supplementary Online Material
last update: 6 OCT 2020