![]() She also taught it to her playmates who further showed it to their mothers. She washed the potatoes in a nearby stream and shared her discovery with her mother. The monkeys liked the taste of the sweet potatoes but found the dirt unpleasant.Īn 18-month-old female monkey found a solution. In the year 1952, on the island of Koshima, a group of scientists provided a group of monkeys with sweet potatoes covered in sand. The Japanese snow monkey, Macaca fuscata, was kept under observation for over 30 years. ![]() In the year 1980, Lyall Watson was the first biologist to propose the theory of “The Hundredth Monkey Effect”, in his book, ‘lifetime He mentioned a phenomenon that the Japanese primatologist discovered while studying the Macaque monkey in the wild.
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