Sentences with phrase «baboons did»

When they disagreed, the other baboons didn't come to blows.

Our small hominid ancestors probably faced the same kinds of threats that baboons do today from leopards, eagles, and other predators.

But enough about humans; baboons do it too.

Not exact matches

Do this, and you might as well be wearing a T - shirt that says: «I'm an over-privileged baboon: cold, ruthless, rude and rather stupid.»

@Scott: Breast - feeding actually doesn't prevent ovulation in humans or baboons.

The team therefore wanted to understand how the baboons were doing this.

Dr King added: «Using these data we were able to tell what the baboons were doing for every second our collars were recording; we can now recognise over 90 % of baboons behaviours without ever actually seeing the baboon!»

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.

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.

Baboons, like people, really do get by with a little help from their friends.

«Rank - reversals [in which a higher - ranking animal seemed to be submitting to a lower - ranking one] run counter to their expectations, and a baboon will momentarily pause and give a look, just as you might if you did nt quite believe what you had just heard,» Bergman says.

By comparing how gut microbes from human vegetarians and grass - grazing baboons digest different diets, researchers have shown that ancestral human diets, so called «paleo» diets, did not necessarily result in better appetite suppression.

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.

To do so, we trained baboons to discriminate English words from nonsense combinations of letters that resembled real words.

Of course, the baboons were not actually reading, because they didn't know what the words meant.

You report that baboons have mastered vowels (14 January, p 12) and that orangutans can do consonants (17/24/31 December 2016,...

Once they do, baboons will head towards the food.

I don't imagine they think of us as being that much different from baboons or the other creatures that they share the forest with, although none of the other creatures they share the forest with follow them around.

One major difference between Old World monkeys — those, like baboons, that live in Africa and Asia — and America's New World monkeys, like the capuchins or organ - grinder monkeys, is that they do not have prehensile tails, and so can't hang by their tails from trees.

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.

Usually when I go to the gym I wear all black, mostly because it's flattering (and let's face it, gym wear isn't always the most forgiving), it doesn't draw attention to me when I'm running like a gazelle baboon and it doesn't show up the sweat patches so much.

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

I didn't like the flying baboons, which managed to be not half as scary as the flying monkeys in The Wizard of Oz, and there's still a little too much fun being had at the expense of little people, but I did laugh out loud a few times.

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.

I get just as much pleasure in watching a wasp hunting for spiders, a family of baboons, or the colors of the New England fall as I do in seeing a bird that I have never encountered before.

Did the baboons recognize you after your absence?

(This was after I'd told him the title of my novel) «It's postmaster,» he rapped out,» I don't care whether it's a man, a woman or a baboon.»

Chief executives, who themselves own few shares in their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.

Belize doesn't actually host any baboons but that's what endangered black howler monkeys are called in the local Creole.

This is a very scenic route through the hills and along part of the coast line and if you're lucky you might even be able to do some baboon spotting.

We also do a combination of the Baboon Sanctuary and Ruins Of Altun Ha.

«broken promises» is a broken record xb!tches play all the time despite the hard facts: Uncharted, GT5P, wipeoutHD, and soon KZ2, HR, GOW3, inFamous... slap slap slap: wake up baboons wiitardos don't have that same inferiority complex you xb!tches have cuz they're winning the numbers game 99 % of the anti sony bull comes from jealous xb!tches

All a person with a 20G has to do is make room for the game in their HDD, where as you BABOONS can't even ENJOY the game if you don't have a HDD... AHAHAHHAHAHHAHAH You BABOON!!!

you can keep polishing that c0ck, baboon cuz we got too many AAA games to play, we don't have time for fat [email protected] wankers with a big mouth and crappy overhyped minigames

Stuff like biting with a squirrel, riding a baboon creature with large claws — it's fun, but still doesn't feel great.

Don't let Baboon!

It is your job to get through the stages in each world before you do battle with the boss in order to progress and get closer to meeting the Pirate Baboon.

We're very proud of the work Yugenstudio has done with Baboon!

How do you feel about baboons and golf?

Not only does the Gagosian's show intellectually outstrip the clumsy Peace and Freedom show at Tate Liverpool, which covers the same period in Picasso's work, but this show is pure pleasure: the paintings are joyful, the ceramics lively and the sculptures utterly winning (there is a baboon face made from a toy car; a mother throwing her child in the air, both of them made from sticks).

They travel around in packs like baboons attacking anyone who dares to point out that empirical science doesn't not support their climate cult religion's dogmas.

However, L.A. doesn't have ostrich wandering the bush or shoreline - patrolling baboons snatching your unguarded picnic basket.

Baboons live in rather promiscuous groups where if a receptive female decides she wants to get it on, all she needs to do is shake her booty in front of her chosen mate (I've seen this tactic used time and again in single's bars).

After all, if your cover letter looks like it was written by a baboon, then the assumption is that your resume probably does to.