Monkeys and Political Leaders: The Seven Rules to Every Human-Simian Society

After I moved to the northern jungles of Malaysia, I watched, observed, and studied from the safety of my window a troop of long-tail macaque monkeys in their natural habitat. I have seen the monkeys play, eat, and communicate with each other, noticing they formed a hierarchical society that mirrors humans. Our hairy little cousins on the tree of evolution act more human than we thought, or depending on perspective, we act more like monkeys.