A study of the frequency of looking both ways before crossing a street revealed that both males and females tend to look both ways more often when accompanied by juveniles than when alone and that when males and females are together (with or without juveniles), males look both ways more often than do females. These findings are consistent with predictions for a primate that has evolved in savannah environments.
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