Sentences with word «baboon»
A baboon is a type of monkey with a large body, long arms, and a dog-like face. Full definition
One of the most memorable sightings came the next day when we happened upon a group of dozens of baboons of all ages that were playing, sparring and climbing in and out of the trees to pick fruit.
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However, a troop of baboons in Kenya has recently changed its ways.
Among some of these guarded treasures is the world's only jaguar reserve (Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary), the Hol Chan Marine Reserve, the Community Baboon Sanctuary as well as scores of ancient Maya sites and many more protected areas.
Schreier, A.L. (2008) Ranging patterns in wild hamadryas baboons in Ethiopia.
In an article published in Current Biology, IAST researcher Alice Baniel and co-authors Guy Cowlishaw (Zoological Society of London, UK) and Elise Huchard (CNRS, Montpellier, France) hint that male baboons attack particular females regularly in the weeks preceding ovulation to increase their chances to mate with them, which can be seen as a form of long - term sexual intimidation.
Matola is strolling through the Community Baboon Sanctuary at Bermudian Landing with her friend the sanctuary manager, Fallet Young.
The effect seems to also hold for other animals: In 2003, a research team led by anthropologist Joan Silk of the University of California, Los Angeles, reported that female baboons with close social ties to unrelated females produce infants that survive longer.
There is none exempt from being reckoned: Thoth as Baboon in charge of the balance Will reckon each man for his deeds on earth.»
Via case studies involving everything from baboon behaviour to MRI imaging, Fisher delves deep into the hows and whys of love, providing us the insights we need to love better.
The findings, appearing online Jan. 18 in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, come from a long - term study of wild baboons monitored on a near - daily basis since 1971 at Amboseli.
chreier, A.L. (2010) Feeding ecology, food availability, and ranging patterns of wild hamadryas baboons at Filoha.
A Newfoundland named Napoleon the Wonder Dog co-starred with Baboons in Van Hare's «Magic Circus» in the 1860s.
THE MOST UNUSUAL THING I SEE HERE IS the local baboon troop play on the beach — you will be really lucky to experience that!
To test for the personality traits of «boldness» — essentially an assertive curiosity — the researchers planted unfamiliar foods on the edge of paths commonly used by baboon troops.
«When people see an animal that they think is frightening... the most common response is to take a photo and post it to social media,» says Heather Campbell at Harper Adams University, UK, who studies baboon spiders, a group of African tarantulas.
The exhibition showcases early examples of post-internet art such as Dara Birnbaum's computer - assisted drawings on plexiglass (1993) to more recent examples like Amsterdam based artist Katja Novitskova's digital print of a golden baboon on an aluminum cut - out (2015).
I am currently focusing on female reproductive competition and on sexual conflict between males and females in a wild population of chacma baboon living in Namibia.
Research teams tracked the same two baboon troops from dawn until dusk across Namibia's Tsaobis Nature Park over several months each year between 2009 - 2014 to observe patterns of behaviour.
A sense of sheer joy is coupled with the ever - present danger posed by predators in a less - colourful, but no less spectacular, image of spirited gelada baboons as the sun sets on the Ethiopian Highlands [Additional file 3].
The dominance hierarchy remained — Number Two still scrapped with Numbers One and Three as in a normal troop — but the higher - ranking baboons didn't vent their anger on subordinates.
Sexual swelling symmetry, individual quality, and attractiveness in wild female olive baboons (Papio anubis)[Master's thesis].
Michaela Hau, an evolutionary physiologist at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Germany, says that the new study is «immensely valuable» because it was carried out with a large number of baboons who lived in the wild rather than a captive population, which might be suffering from different kinds of stresses due to captivity, social isolation, or variable food quality.
A Memphis Zoo colleague, Steven Reichling, recorded a similarly striking behavior in a related species of African baboon spider, Hysterocrates crassipes.
In contrast, Archie says, «low - ranking baboons and people of low socioeconomic status experience long - term stressors with little chance to escape.»
Those exposed to human cultures digesting a potato diet released the most PYY, followed by those exposed to baboon cultures on a potato diet.
Joey King plays a crippled girl who is upset that Oz can't make her walk and is the voice behind the China Girl whose legs were broken during a flying baboon attack to her village.
Lawrence's reliance on CGI is almost missing this time out - except for an unfortunately extended baboon attack sequence, which just doesn't work.
«New tools to spy on raiding baboons in suburbs of Cape Town, South Africa.»
Infuriated by the moral decadence he finds about him, Lancelot Andrewes Lamar determines to create a stern new morality of his own, a revived courtly righteousness which will put an end to the American baboon colony, as he calls it, where men and women cohabit as indiscriminately as characters in a soap opera.
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.
«Male parental care is rare among mammals,» says Jason Buchan of Duke University, who has studied savanna baboons in Kenya.
Baboons show friendship - like relationships in that they will groom nonrelatives and rear young with them.
From the human perspective, few events in evolution were more momentous than the split among primates that led to apes (large, tailless primates such as today's gorillas, chimpanzees, and humans) and Old World monkeys (which today include baboons and macaques).
From the gorgeous gelada baboons living on Ethiopia's plateaus to cheetahs in Namibia, and of course an African safari to see the Big 5, Africa's wilds are without a doubt my number one dream destination.
is simple, there is an evil Pirate Baboon who has wreaked havoc on the game's island with an anti-gravity gun.
For example, she noted that in a recent study using baboons, those animals that succeeded in matching same and different relations required over 15,000 trials.
However, later work on the translation confirmed belief that it referred not to a dog but to a hound - faced baboon.
Even baboons, stronger, faster, and better defended than humans, hang close to their kin when predators are near.
The structure of the platform enables to test the attention, the memory and reasoning skills in free access conditions of baboons kept in social groups.
A mountain tortoise and if you are very lucky a caracole and of course the «Local» baboon population.
Female baboons get vocal to keep a good mate around after copulation, new research suggests.
When it's time to travel, wild olive baboons make democratic decisions about where to go, even though they live in hierarchical societies.
«Why baboons should demonstrate homophily for boldness is unclear, but it could be a heritable trait, and the patterns we're seeing reflect family associations.»
Haha, this is a case of monkey dey work baboon dey chop!
Was it spite that led a male baboon called Nick to take revenge on a rival by urinating on her?
Sapolsky would have likely not ever studied such relationships if it weren't for his initial interests in baboon social behavior and his love of Africa.
Environmental conditions can also override biology among baboons, who, much like chimpanzees, seem hardwired for aggression.