Baboons show friendship - like relationships in that they will groom nonrelatives and rear young with them.
But nearly 30 years of data on wild
baboons shows that top - ranking males, despite showing signs of increased stress, recover more quickly than low - ranking baboons from wounds and illness.
Not exact matches
Now a new study with a troop of zoo
baboons and lots of peanuts
shows that a less obvious trait - the ability to understand numbers - also is shared by humans and their primate cousins.
In a previous study, the team
showed that whilst the management strategy was keeping
baboons away from the urban space, some males were still finding ways in.
«Sapolsky's research seems to
show that the female
baboons have «seen the light,»» and realized that life is better with peaceful males, says Frans de Waal, a primatologist at Emory University in Atlanta.
By comparing how gut microbes from human vegetarians and grass - grazing
baboons digest different diets, researchers have
shown that ancestral human diets, so called «paleo» diets, did not necessarily result in better appetite suppression.
Researchers have
shown the same benefit in chimpanzees and
baboons that supplement their diets with clay.
In further tooth comparisons with living primates,
baboons — consumers of underground plants and hard - shelled fruits —
showed the greatest similarity to H. naledi, with fractures on 25 percent of their teeth.
CHANGE OF HEART A cardiac MRI
shows how the heart of a
baboon born to a mother moderately undernourished during pregnancy has a spherical shape (right).
A new study, by researchers from the University of Cambridge and the Zoological Society of London,
shows how
baboons monitor each other for changes in behaviour that indicate food has been found, such as hunching over to scoop it up.
New research
shows that chacma
baboons within a troop spend more of their time with
baboons that have similar characteristics to themselves: associating with those of a similar age, dominance rank and even personality type such as boldness.
Consistent with these studies, Bartholomew et al 92
showed that allogeneic
baboon MSC suppressed the proliferative activity of lymphocytes in vitro and prolonged graft survival.
Experimental animal studies have
shown that Borrelia burgdorferi, the agent of Lyme borreliosis, consistently establishes persistent infections in a variety of immunocompetent hosts, including laboratory mice [1], white - footed mice (Peromyscus leucopus)[2], [3], [4], rats [5], hamsters [6], guinea pigs [7], gerbils [8], dogs [9], and nonhuman primates, including rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta)[10] and
baboons (Papio spp.)[11].
Usually when I go to the gym I wear all black, mostly because it's flattering (and let's face it, gym wear isn't always the most forgiving), it doesn't draw attention to me when I'm running like a gazelle
baboon and it doesn't
show up the sweat patches so much.
At Gray's gallery he
shows a stuffed
baboon passionately kissing the nozzle of a pristine vacuum cleaner (conflating classic works by Hirst and fellow art star Jeff Koons); a deer head in a barber's chair; a cow suspended from the ceiling, draped with strings of pearls; and a cat splayed spread - eagle and stapled to the wall.
Not only does the Gagosian's
show intellectually outstrip the clumsy Peace and Freedom
show at Tate Liverpool, which covers the same period in Picasso's work, but this
show is pure pleasure: the paintings are joyful, the ceramics lively and the sculptures utterly winning (there is a
baboon face made from a toy car; a mother throwing her child in the air, both of them made from sticks).