Sentences with phrase «baboon social»

The study is the first to monitor baboon social network structures over such a timescale and is published today in the journal Royal Society Open Science.

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.

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You know they will pay you back in some form, at some point — so no worries, says Joan Silk, an evolutionary biologist at Arizona State University in Tempe who has spent most of her career studying social relationships in primates, specifically female baboons.

Silk found that the more social the female baboon, the greater the rate of her infant's survival.

«The existence of such complex social classifications in baboons, a species without language, suggests that the social pressures imposed by life in complex groups may have been one factor leading to the evolution of sophisticated cognition and language in our pre-human ancestors.»

They found that baboon moms that were more social — quantified by the amount of time they spent being groomed by other adult females — had more than the average number of offspring survive to 12 months of age.

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.

This relatively rare occurrence allowed the researchers to examine possible differences in the social bonds and behavior of wild immature baboons that grow up with or without the influence of mothers and fathers.

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.

The researchers also identified a correlation between speed of wound - healing and the size of the social group the baboon belonged to: Males from larger groups recovered more quickly than those in smaller groups.

For example, in species such as baboons that have rigid social rankings and hierarchies, with so - called alpha males dominating other males and females over extended periods of time, it can apparently be more stressful at the top.

To try to tease out the relationship between social rank, stress, and health, Altmann teamed up with Elizabeth Archie, a behavioral ecologist at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, and Susan Alberts, a behavioral ecologist at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, to analyze data collected from 1982 through 2009 in the Amboseli region of Kenya, home to a large population of wild baboons.

But when choosing where to travel, a baboon's social rank or sex is irrelevant, perhaps because the decision affects the entire group.

Like other intelligent, highly social primates, baboon courtship can take many different forms.

«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.

While baboons acquire information about food locations from watching others, they can also use social learning to see when that food is likely to be gone.

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.

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.

Alberts is skeptical of drawing any evolutionary implications from the study, because human biology and social dynamics are so different from that of baboons.

As I know from my work with free - ranging infant wild baboons in Kenya — monkeys that have a social organization similar to that of the rhesus — this regimen results in a terrible distortion of the animals» natural way of life.

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

Baboons are social animals and live in troops.

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.

Schreier, A.L., Swedell, L. (2009) The fourth level of social structure in a multi-level society: ecological and social functions of clans in hamadryas baboons.

Schreier, A.L., Swedell, L. (2010) Resource availability and social structure in wild hamadryas baboons.

Schreier, A.L., Swedell, L. (2010) Food distribution and social cohesion in hamadryas baboons: testing the assumptions behind the evolution of hamadryas social structure.

In the lab I was studying why an excess of stress hormones had adverse consequences for health (in particular, damaging neurons), while with the baboons, I wanted to understand what social factors predicted who secreted more or less of those stress hormones.

Then the internet and social media and baboon selfies and Tinder happened, and photography suddenly looked its age, a ubiquitous media parent / enabler: reliable, cheap, undemanding of love.