Sentences with phrase «baboons in»

We come from all over the U.S. with a wide range of backgrounds — from professional diving in Hawaii, to kicking butt at women's hockey in New York, to monitoring baboons in Africa — these ladies really rock.

There are 2 to 3 hour guided walks available which pass through fynbos until you encounter baboons in their natural environment and territory.

A Newfoundland named Napoleon the Wonder Dog co-starred with Baboons in Van Hare's «Magic Circus» in the 1860s.

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.

Schreier, A.L. (2008) Ranging patterns in wild hamadryas baboons in Ethiopia.

Barbara J. King, a biological anthropologist at the College of William & Mary, has studied baboons in Kenya and great apes in captivity.

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.

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.

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.

Louise Barrett, Robin Dunbar and Patsy Dunbar of University College in London analysed observations made of gelada baboons in Ethiopia.

The features were discovered after detailed study of the shapes of molars and premolars inherited by baboons in a long - studied colony at the Southwest National Primate Research Center in San Antonio, Texas.

Half of the parents of the baboons in this group had been caught by leopards within a period of two months prior to data collection.

Joan B. Silk of the University of California at Los Angeles and her colleagues analyzed 16 years of behavioral data from a population of baboons in Kenya.

However, a troop of baboons in Kenya has recently changed its ways.

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

«Study author Dr Gabriele Macho examined the diet of Paranthropus boisei, nicknamed «Nutcra.cker Man» because of his big flat molar teeth and powerful jaws, THROUGH STUDYING MODERN - DAY BABOONS IN KENYA..

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

The Scobie indie duo published «A Baboon in the Bedroom» about an amazing journey across Africa in 2017.

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Not exact matches

Given this fact, the researchers wondered if gelada baboons engage in a behavior known as tactical deception.

Gelada baboons (Theropithecus gelada) live in small units, which consist of up to a dozen females, a few subordinate males and a dominant male, who holds exclusive reproductive rights to the females.

Every year, Cedar Citrus, a co-op citrus farm in South Africa owned by ALG Estates, received frequent visits from a troop of baboons even though the fruit was not yet ripened.

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

The break will then be rendered wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilized state, as we may hope... the Caucasian, and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as at present between the Negro or Australian and the gorilla.

In densely populated and impoverished parts of Africa, setting aside land for baboons and protecting them may prevent human beings from having the land they need to feed themselves.

Infuriated by the moral decadence he finds about him, Lancelot Andrewes Lamar determines to create a stern new morality of his own, a revived courtly righteousness which will put an end to the American baboon colony, as he calls it, where men and women cohabit as indiscriminately as characters in a soap opera.

Animals that live in groups, such as baboons, both compete and cooperate to stay together.

This is where golf baboon chased Luke Donald back in 2014 — a first - ballot Hall of Famer in SB Nation's golf animal bestiary.

And in one group of savannah baboons, researchers found that males were more likely to support youngsters involved in daily squabbles if they were the genetic fathers of those juveniles (Buchan et al 2003).

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

Cholesterol metabolism in adult baboons is influenced by infant diet.

Nigerians have yet to forget President Muhammadu Buhari's «the dog and the baboon would all be soaked in blood» hate speeches and the threat by the APC to form a parallel government,» he said.

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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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.

We had to find another method to document the very special techniques baboons were adopting when raiding,» said Swansea University PhD researcher Gaëlle Fehlmann, lead author of the study who carried out the fieldwork in South Africa.

Dominant male chacma baboons allow lower - ranking males to mate with their females as a way to protect the dominant male's own offspring in their absence.

«Our preliminary collars that we deployed in the first field season came up with interesting results, but only provided a couple of weeks of data; they needed to be more robust to keep up with the baboons,» added Dr Andrew King, head of Swansea University's SHOAL (Sociality, Heterogeneity, Organisation And Leadership) research group in the College of Science, who is the senior author of the study.

Scientists from Swansea University's College of Science are part of an international team attempting to better understand the human - baboon conflict in Cape Town, South Africa.

They looked at a giant ruffed lemur, a baboon lemur, a koala lemur and two sloth lemurs — all housed in the collections at the University of Antananarivo and the Duke Lemur Center at Duke University.

This tactic gives female baboons — who would otherwise be at the mercy of the much larger males — a bit of a say in who fathers their babies, says Maestripieri.

Besides providing detailed, long - term observations of behavior in several generations of baboons, the research has yielded a wealth of biological and genetic information.

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.

«Sapolsky's research seems to show that the female baboons have «seen the light,»» and realized that life is better with peaceful males, says Frans de Waal, a primatologist at Emory University in Atlanta.

Once a female baboon mates with a preferred male, it is in her best interest to give that male's sperm the best chance to fertilize her eggs by avoiding further copulation.

A new study found that female baboons that had the most stable relationships with other females weren't always the highest up in the dominance hierarchy or the ones with close kin around — but they were the nicest.

Baboons show friendship - like relationships in that they will groom nonrelatives and rear young with them.

The team studied a captive group of Guinea baboons at the Brookfield Zoo in Chicago for 3 months and found that instead of persuading more males to mate, a female's calls put off potential suitors.

This, he points out in an article in Foreign Affairs, is «nearly as unprecedented as baboons sprouting wings.»

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.