The Police Are A Bunch Of Monkey Case Study

Despite those occurrences where the police are perceived as an annoyance, simply out to make peoples' days worse, they are an essential part of society. The article titled, "The police are a bunch of monkeys" shows that police serve various duties in human society such as protecting life, limb, and property. Removing them from society would result in grooming fewer others, playing with fewer others, and dividing up into cliques as the social network begins to break down. What I have described is not the absence of police in human society, but the removal of the monkey police force in a study involving an Asian species called the pigtailed macaque. Jessica Flack, of the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico, conducted a study involving a troop of 84 animals with 45 of those being adults. She observed that three males and one female acted as a self-imposed police force on the troop and broke up fights. To fully observe the effects of policing, they observed several aspects of the monkey society such as grooming, sitting close to others, and play. They removed the male police

The studies involved genetically modified fruit flies and were aiming to discover neuropeptides' role in controlling aggression. Nearly 40 lines of flies were tested by increasing the temperature to 80 degrees to increase neuron firing and determine which flies exhibited aggressive behavior. Another method was to change the neurons they were studying to fluorescent green so that they could see their anatomy and location. They discovered that the neuropeptide tachykinin was found only in males. When they silenced the neurons that produced tachykinin, aggression decreased. The results revealed a cluster of neurons that increased aggression and those neurons were only present in males. Mammals also possess several kinds of tachykinin and it is shown that human aggression is possibly linked to these multiple neurons as