Sentences with phrase «baboon troops»
Baboon troops can be sizable, sometimes as many as 100 members, with the troops in the latest study numbering around 70.
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Latest research on social networks in wild baboon troops has revealed how the animals get information from each other on the whereabouts of food.
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.
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.
While human societies historically privilege the firstborn, in baboon troops maternal lineage is ranked by lastborn — with each new female baby replacing the last in terms of hierarchy.
Shortages of fertile females were particularly common in times of food scarcity, when baboon troops distance themselves from each other and females take 15 percent longer between successive births — which means males who don't kill have even longer to wait.
Not exact matches
And that's apparently improved life for lowlier baboons; they don't have the classic markers of chronic stress — such as elevated levels of stress hormones — found in their peers in other troops.
Others, like the hamadryas baboons, have tiered societies with harems, clans, bands and troops, she said.
To conduct the study, researchers snuck handfuls of maize corn kernels, a high - energy baboon favourite («like finding a stash of chocolate bars») into the path of two foraging troops of wild chacma baboons in Tsaobis Nature Park, Namibia.
Baboons are social animals and live in troops.
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.
Kids seem to especially enjoy seeing the howler monkeys $ there are troops at Community Baboon Sanctuary, at Lamanai, in Cayo, around Monkey River and elsewhere.