At one zoo, an
entire baboon troop gathered on top of their rock, all staring in exactly the same direction.
THE MOST UNUSUAL THING I SEE HERE IS the
local baboon troop play on the beach — you will be really lucky to experience that!
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.
These queues reflect the complex interactions within
a baboon troop.
The new research, published in the open access journal eLife, breaks down the transmission of social information through
a baboon troop into three stages: