Why Monkeys Make Faces?

• 作者: 梁译标
• 来源期刊: 语言教育
• 学科: 教育
• 关键词: MONKEY PLEASURE THREAT really traditionally expressing 灵长目动物 signaling tired warning
• 年，卷（期）: 1992,（2）
• 页码范围: 34-
• 页数: 1页
• 分类号: G6

摘要

<正> It may look like a 'yawn' but any primate expertknows this monkey’s expression is really a threat. Simi-larly, when a monkey 'grins' or 'smiles', it is notin fact expressing pleasure: it is signaling fear of submmis-sion. The faces monkeys make are an important partof their communications with each other, but peoplehave traditionally-and wrongly-interpreted those expressions