Sentences with phrase «baboon on»

Within weeks of the Jan Moir article, A.A. Gill wrote a piece about killing a baboon on a safari.

Join the baboons on a fascinating eco trail through the mountains, Surf the many world renowned breaks in the area.

Not exact matches

The beauty of Cape Town is undeniable — the plateau - topped mountain range that drops into a shimmering sea; the free - roaming wildlife, from whales breaching offshore to baboons that sunbathe on the roadside; the Georgian mansions and Victorian homes that line its residential streets.

Ryan posted a link to an interesting article on the intelligence of pigeons and baboons.

The Christmas tree's lights, in what's thought to be the birth place of Jesus Christ, were turned on by Vera Baboon.

There is none exempt from being reckoned: Thoth as Baboon in charge of the balance Will reckon each man for his deeds on earth.»

Maybe they're worth a shot on your bracket, but be like the wading baboon and tread lightly if you're thinking about betting them.

«New tools to spy on raiding baboons in suburbs of Cape Town, South Africa.»

Was it spite that led a male baboon called Nick to take revenge on a rival by urinating on her?

To find out more about how female baboons forge bonds, Cheney and co-authors focused on detailed records of observations of 45 female baboons from 2001 to 2007.

Sapolsky and Share are still unsure how the culture is being passed on, but they suspect that it has to do with the observed friendly attitude of the female baboons towards newcomer males.

Since early 1978, Sapolsky has traveled to Kenya to spy on baboons, including Forest Troop, a group living near a tourist lodge's garbage dump.

The most serious altercations are usually between baboons of close rank; but baboons low on the totem pole get bullied all the time by higher - ups looking for an ego boost.

► Scientists using nonhuman primates in your research, take note: «[I] n response to a congressional mandate, [the National Institutes of Health (NIH)-RSB- will convene a workshop this summer to review the ethical policies and procedures surrounding work on monkeys, baboons, and related animals,» David Grimm reported on Monday.

ScienceInsider has learned that, in response to a congressional mandate, the agency will convene a workshop this summer to review the ethical policies and procedures surrounding work on monkeys, baboons, and related animals.

Those exposed to human cultures digesting a potato diet released the most PYY, followed by those exposed to baboon cultures on a potato diet.

For instance, he is working on a proposal to map genes that regulate aging in baboons.

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.

At any given time, a troop of baboons typically contains one or two newly arrived males that have left the group where they were born in search of opportunities to reproduce and pass on their genes elsewhere.

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.

The scientists used a unique testing facility, consisting of a trailer with computers set up next to a baboon enclosure, which the animals could enter at will and perform trials on the touch - screen computers for as long as they pleased.

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.

To further investigate the effect of stress levels on the baboons» immune systems, the team analyzed healing rates in 144 of the baboons.

Using a computer game, baboons learned to identify English words from nonsense based on common groupings of letters.

If another baboon followed, then it was likely others would as well, until the entire troop was on the move.

Wasser hadn't come to Africa to work on elephants; he was there studying how female baboons curtail their reproduction when resources grow scarce, and he was interested in measuring changes in the hormones that regulate stress and reproduction.

The scientists teased apart the animals» decision - making process by trapping and fitting GPS collars on 25 baboons (Papio anubis) in Kenya.

At one zoo, an entire baboon troop gathered on top of their rock, all staring in exactly the same direction.

The sequence of baboons in a queue depends on status — sometimes through birth - right — as well as social and familial relationships to the particular baboon occupying the food patch.

The baboons climb trees to escape lions, but if one lion pretends to climb the tree the baboons panic and flee — and are pounced on by other lions lurking in the undergrowth.

The research team then measured the time spent on investigating the new foodstuff, and whether they ate it, to determine a scale of boldness for members of the baboon troops.

Latest research on social networks in wild baboon troops has revealed how the animals get information from each other on the whereabouts of food.

My PhD dissertation focuses on the reproductive ecology of Kinda baboons, and is in collaboration with the Kasanka Baboon Project.

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.

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].

On the other hand, the baboon - dinosaurs were very believable, but then again, they appeared mostly in the dark, so it was very hard to tell.

I also dug on the initial premise, the many semi tense creature encounters (loved them half baboon / half lizard thingies) and the zany time travel ideas!

Lawrence's reliance on CGI is almost missing this time out - except for an unfortunately extended baboon attack sequence, which just doesn't work.

At first, the baboons will swing around the arena so try and jump on them when they're not holding a weapon.

The person - on - person violence has been scaled down this time out, as most of the Hunger Games challenges involve computer - programmed «Fear Factor» perils such as poisonous fog, lightning storms, a congress of mutated baboons, manufactured tidal waves, etc..

Woodard, 64, will play Simba's mother Sarabi and Kani, 73, will be taking on the role of the wise baboon Rafiki, who advises Mufasa, the king of Pride Rock, The Wrap reports.

He is also the author of Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers, A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons, and Monkeyluv: And Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals.

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She's been accused of being anywhere from naive, stupid, attempting to defraud the reader, dishonest — and recently there was something about a baboon erection from one particularly vitriolic opposing party which made me laugh out loud and shake my head at how poorly some people behave on the internet.

However, later work on the translation confirmed belief that it referred not to a dog but to a hound - faced baboon.

THE MOST UNUSUAL THING I SEE HERE IS the local baboon troop play on the beach — you will be really lucky to experience that!

As we sat back and watched the interactions in awe and amusement, several elephants wandered into the scene, with one of the larger, feisty baboons at one point standing up on his hinds legs and directly facing off with an elephant — until the elephant made it clear who would prevail by grunting and aggressively moving his front legs.

A baboon pool party After a two - day stop at the Sanctuary Baines Camp in the delta came the grand finale: two days at the Sanctuary Chief's Camp on the prized Moremi Game Reserve in Botswana.

We make a multifunctional campfire out of wood and elephant dung to cook on and keep hyenas, baboons and other animals at bay.

In a garden on a mountain top amidst a ancient woodland village of Baboons, Bushbuck, Impala, Grey Duikers, Klipspringer, Kudu,...