Sentences with word «baboon»
Baboons are Old World monkeys belonging to the genus Papio, part of the subfamily Cercopithecinae which are found natively in very specific areas of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. (Wikipedia) (See all definitions)
Kayak along the rugged coastline and hike Table Mountain, where you can see fynbos, baboons, Cape mountain zebra and over 250 bird species.
TRAVEL
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The results revealed that the baboons were using orthographic information in order to efficiently discriminate words from letter strings that were not words.
SCIENCE
Eschewing any Q-ship aesthetic, SRT adorns the Charger with a full complement of machismo outside and in, extending to a leather-and-suede interior that's as red as a baboon's behind and conveys approximately the same sentiment: «Step aside: Bad mofo coming through.»
AUTOMOBILES
An endearing family portrait of a Hamadryas baboon mother with young.
ENVIRONMENT
Bartholomew et al 53 first described the in vivo immunomodulatory properties of MSCs in a baboon model of skin transplantation.
SCIENCE
Had me grinning like a baboon from start to finish.
MOVIES & TV
Her sweet potatoes, she told us last year, are under constant attack from baboons and elephants that stray from the park in search of food.
SCIENCE
Wildlife ranges from springbok, klipspringer and baboons, to porcupines and bat eared foxes.
TRAVEL
I come back to this thread after one day, and there's more shit being thrown than at a drunken baboon's Christmas party.
ENVIRONMENT
These days, I study things like differences in «cultures» between troops of baboons, how the cultures are propagated, the consequences of the differing cultures for the health of individuals.
BOOKS
Sea urchins and baboons to you, Al..)
SPORTS
TPLH has assembled a colony of baboons between 0 and 25 years of age (0 to 100 human equivalent).
SCIENCE
I don't mean to sound facetious, but whereas US crunchies worry about whether to encapsulate their placentas or serve them au jus, in sub-Saharan Africa the main concern is probably how best to dispose of it to avoid attracting hyenas and baboons who may cast a lean and hungry look at the newborn as well.
PARENTING
This is where golf baboon chased Luke Donald back in 2014 — a first-ballot Hall of Famer in SB Nation's golf animal bestiary.
SPORTS
Normally aggressive male adolescent baboons leave their native troop and slowly work into a new one; Forest Troop had somehow managed to assimilate these surly newcomers without losing its peaceful culture.
SCIENCE
chreier, A.L. (2010) Feeding ecology, food availability, and ranging patterns of wild hamadryas baboons at Filoha.
SCIENCE
Bulkier than real life baboons, their stature resembles orangutangs and gorillas.
TECHNOLOGY
Stuff like biting with a squirrel, riding a baboon creature with large claws — it's fun, but still doesn't feel great.
GAMING
Within weeks of the Jan Moir article, A.A. Gill wrote a piece about killing a baboon on a safari.
POLITICS
THE MOST UNUSUAL THING I SEE HERE IS the local baboon troop play on the beach — you will be really lucky to experience that!
TRAVEL
When it comes to applying and exploiting social knowledge, however, the characteristics of individual baboons — whether its sex, status, boldness, or social ties in grooming networks — determine who gets to eat, or where they are in any queue that forms.
SCIENCE
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.
DATING
When Rafiki (the baboon) says «I'm not the one who is confused, you don't even know who you are!»
ART
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.
ART
In rhesus macaques, mothering style is correlated with offspring cortisol and serotonin levels (14, 15), and in baboons, the male offspring of subordinate mothers exhibit higher glucocorticoid levels than the offspring of more dominant mothers (16).
PETS
While travelling, you'll encounter lions, elephants, rhinos, ostriches, penguins and baboons.
TRAVEL
That's the conclusion reached by Louise Barrett at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada, who studied 11 years of observations from a baboon troop in De Hoop Nature Reserve, South Africa.
SCIENCE
He knew even the hungriest baboons were picky eaters and would not eat sour fruit so he compared the fruit to the trees around it.
BUSINESS
What Jeff doesn't know is that I also invented a directional thought wave detector which is, right now, guiding the genetically modified baboons I created to his lair.
SCIENCE
There was once a brainy baboon Who always blew down a bassoon, For he said «it appears In billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune»
RELIGION
Four baboons were shortly returned to their enclosure after they had escaped earlier from a primate research facility.
SCIENCE
This two wheeled adventure takes us through stunning mountain scenery and past dramatic rock formations, through abandoned gold mines, baboon inhabited forests and tranquil natural waterfalls.
TRAVEL
We didn't see any lions, leopards, or Cape buffaloes, but we did see elephants, rhinos, hippos, baboons, impalas, kudus, giraffes, wildebeests, zebras, crocodiles, monitor lizards, and a warthog.
FOOD & BEVERAGES
To see what it feels like to kill a baboon.
POLITICS
In densely populated and impoverished parts of Africa, setting aside land for baboons and protecting them may prevent human beings from having the land they need to feed themselves.
RELIGION
After all, they put the «boo» in baboon.
BOOKS
Monkey River Tour Monkey River Tour is one of the best inland tours to do from Placencia and is not just a village or town, but also home to the Black Howler Monkey, which are also known in Belize as the «baboon».
TRAVEL
If your baby looks like a hairy baboon after being born, wait for about 6 weeks and he'll have the smoothest skin you've ever touched.
PARENTING
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.
SCIENCE
Haha, this is a case of monkey dey work baboon dey chop!
SPORTS
We see white rhinoes, a buffalo herd, many zebras, giraffes, wildebeests, springbucks and impalas, baboons and several birds, among which a group of vultures in a tree.
TRAVEL
And along the way, there are also several terrific mash-ups, some steamy innuendo and a scene-stealing baboon.
MOVIES & TV
That said, these determined fighters would be able to successfully triumph over vicious wild boars and baboons unaided by humans or other dogs.
PETS
A troop of baboons have more social Graces than the atheists in this blog.
RELIGION
Most memorable amongst the unusual animal species one might encounter are the seals, penguins and whales, whilst on land the species most likely to amuse are the playful baboons of the Cape Peninsula and the pea-brained ostriches of the Karoo.
TRAVEL
- The Enchanting Characters and Creatures of Oz - From Munchkins and Tinkers to good witches, bad witches, and flying baboons, this piece follows each character and creature of the Land of Oz from inspiration to final outcome.
MOVIES & TV
By 1993, in trials with baboons, Wilson proved the virus could import the healthy CFTR gene into lung cells.
SCIENCE
I'm not sure if it was the elephants wandering through the villas; the hippos munching all night in the back lagoon; the baboon party around my private plunge pool; the game drives that included watching lions mating and close-up views of leopards, rhinos, hyenas, zebras, giraffes and elephants; or the just-renovated villas that I liked best about this camp.
TRAVEL
The fairest ape, the sprightliest chimpanzee; the loveliest baboon, the most bewitching orang-outang, the most fascinating gorilla failed to touch with love's sweet pain, poor Adam's lonely heart.
RELIGION
A male baboon, for example, might express his power by holding his breath and causing his chest to expand.
HEALTH & FITNESS