Sentences with phrase «baboons who»

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 strongest bonds were found between young baboons who shared a mother, while the weakest relations were among those who were not related in any way.

The game we were expecting eight months ago, with bots so intelligent they make your average online player look like a baboon who's been dropped at birth.

is simple, there is an evil Pirate Baboon who has wreaked havoc on the game's island with an anti-gravity gun.

Not exact matches

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.

And who are the baboons, your own countrymen?

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.

«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.

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.

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.

Environmental conditions can also override biology among baboons, who, much like chimpanzees, seem hardwired for aggression.

And later, he analyzed patterns of mortality and reproduction in natural populations of lions and baboons (see «Just Like the Joneses») by working with other scientists who had already been collecting field data from the mammals.

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.

Working with three Kenyan field assistants who observed the baboons 6 days a week, 52 weeks each year, the team noted 633 cases of either illness or injury in 166 adult male baboons over the 27 - year course of the study.

Their analysis revealed that certain baboons are «initiators» — individuals who typically step away from the others.

«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.

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.

At this point, surrounding baboons will often form what can appear to be a queue, to determine who gets to explore that patch of ground next.

And although sexual customs and freedoms vary widely across human societies, women by and large have more choice in who they mate with than female baboons, she notes.

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Joey King plays a crippled girl who is upset that Oz can't make her walk and is the voice behind the China Girl whose legs were broken during a flying baboon attack to her village.

Shadowy satanist organizations, American political powers, and everyones favourite villain David Warner (here playing a shaggy haired photographer who figures out the truth), Rottweiler and Baboon attacks, the mark of the devil 666, and a creepy performance from child actor Harvey Spencer Stephens insured that The Omen was a huge success at the time.

While there were plenty of fans who dressed as Jared Leto's green - haired Joker at the 2015 Comic - Con, the «Suicide Squad» star himself went undercover in a baboon mask.

Woodard, 64, will play Simba's mother Sarabi and Kani, 73, will be taking on the role of the wise baboon Rafiki, who advises Mufasa, the king of Pride Rock, The Wrap reports.

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.

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.

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sp.), gorilla (Hominidae, Homininae, Gorilla sp.), macaque (Cercopithecidea, Cercopithecinae, Macaca sp.), baboon (Cercopithecidae, Cercopithecinae, Papio sp., Theropithecus sp., Mandrillus sp.), langur (Cercopithecidae, Colobinac, Presbytis sp., Trachypithecus sp.), colobus monkey (Cercopithecidae, Colobinae, Colobus sp.) or guenon (Cercopithecidae, Cercopithecinae, Cercopithecus sp.) held by a facility accredited by the American Zoo and Aquarium Association at the request of and under the immediate personal supervision of a licensed veterinarian who has personally diagnosed the condition to be treated or who has specifically delegated such duties to the physician and who evaluates the services provided by such physician.

The park is also home to Chacma baboons and Vervet monkeys, pesky critters who are incredibly mischievous so be sure to lock your food away.

As we sat back and watched the interactions in awe and amusement, several elephants wandered into the scene, with one of the larger, feisty baboons at one point standing up on his hinds legs and directly facing off with an elephant — until the elephant made it clear who would prevail by grunting and aggressively moving his front legs.

Established in 1985, this baboon sanctuary was set up as a cooperative agreement among 12 local farmers and landowners in Bermudian Landing who voluntarily agreed to preserve the area's black howler monkey habitat.

The South African photographer Pieter Hugo is probably best known for his 2005 — 2007 series «The Hyena & Other Men,» which depicts a group of men who stage impromptu performances with tamed hyenas and baboons across Nigeria.

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.

USA About Blog A blog by a Yorkshire lass living in Scotland who became a sudden full - time step - mum when she married a gorgeous African man who used to have a pet baboon.

USA About Blog A blog by a Yorkshire lass living in Scotland who became a sudden full - time step - mum when she married a gorgeous African man who used to have a pet baboon.