Sentences with phrase «by baboon»

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

If after an hour you've been obliterated by a baboon or kangaroo and feel the urge to quit, give casual mode a shot.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

So you should not be offended by me comparing you atheists with baboons.

Now a new study with a troop of zoo baboons and lots of peanuts shows that a less obvious trait - the ability to understand numbers - also is shared by humans and their primate cousins.

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.

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.

Was it spite that led a male baboon called Nick to take revenge on a rival by urinating on her?

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.

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

The most serious altercations are usually between baboons of close rank; but baboons low on the totem pole get bullied all the time by higher - ups looking for an ego boost.

«The existence of such complex social classifications in baboons, a species without language, suggests that the social pressures imposed by life in complex groups may have been one factor leading to the evolution of sophisticated cognition and language in our pre-human ancestors.»

They found that baboon moms that were more social — quantified by the amount of time they spent being groomed by other adult females — had more than the average number of offspring survive to 12 months of age.

These manufactured altercations — for example, playing a threat vocalization by a high - ranking female followed by the submission squeal of a lower - ranking animal — were then played through hidden speakers while the scientists recorded the reactions of listening baboons.

The effect seems to also hold for other animals: In 2003, a research team led by anthropologist Joan Silk of the University of California, Los Angeles, reported that female baboons with close social ties to unrelated females produce infants that survive longer.

Those exposed to human cultures digesting a potato diet released the most PYY, followed by those exposed to baboon cultures on a potato diet.

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.

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.

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.

In September a team led by Jason Buchan, a molecular behavioral ecologist at Duke University, produced genetic evidence that male baboons are caring dads.

And today, a group of researchers headed by Bruno Reichart at the University of Munich in Germany announced they had nearly doubled the previous survival record for a life - sustaining pig heart transplant in a baboon, to 90 days.

By studying the mitochondrial and Y chromosome DNA as well as other genetic data from the animal, Link Olson of the University of Alaska Museum determined that it was more closely related to savanna baboons than mangabeys.

Yet a cranial analysis by primatologist Eric Sargis of Yale University found that it lacked many of the typical features of such baboons.

Grainger et al. (p. 245; see the Perspective by Platt and Adams) tested orthographic skills in baboons.

The baboons» home is the Namib desert, the most arid environment known to be inhabited by a nonhuman -LSB-...]

By SUE ARMSTRONG (see Graphic) Each dry season, Conrad Brain is plagued by the same melancholy thought — that he may be watching the dying days of the troop of chacma baboons he has been studying since 198By SUE ARMSTRONG (see Graphic) Each dry season, Conrad Brain is plagued by the same melancholy thought — that he may be watching the dying days of the troop of chacma baboons he has been studying since 198by the same melancholy thought — that he may be watching the dying days of the troop of chacma baboons he has been studying since 1986.

Males of other baboon species sometimes take a different tack: by «befriending» a female through attentive companionship and grooming (the primate equivalent of sparkling conversation) they may eventually be chosen as mates by those females.

The scientists teased apart the animals» decision - making process by trapping and fitting GPS collars on 25 baboons (Papio anubis) in Kenya.

By 1993, in trials with baboons, Wilson proved the virus could import the healthy CFTR gene into lung cells.

The authors of the new study — a multicenter effort led by Kent State University anthropologists C. Owen Lovejoy and Mary Ann Raghanti and published January 22 in PNAS — began by measuring neurotransmitter levels in brain samples from humans, chimpanzees, gorillas, baboons and monkeys, all of whom had died of natural causes.

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.

A new study, by researchers from the University of Cambridge and the Zoological Society of London, shows how baboons monitor each other for changes in behaviour that indicate food has been found, such as hunching over to scoop it up.

A threat display by a Hamadryas baboon (Papio hamadryas) in Ngorongoro, Tanzania.

The baboons climb trees to escape lions, but if one lion pretends to climb the tree the baboons panic and flee — and are pounced on by other lions lurking in the undergrowth.

Female baboons try and get around this by being as promiscuous as possible to confuse the paternal identity — so males find it harder to tell if they are killing a rival's offspring or their own,» added Dr Carter.

«However, baboons can mediate their status to a minor extent by having good grooming relationships, and low - ranking individuals have a slightly higher chance of applying and exploiting information if they are central in a grooming network.

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.

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.

Carter says that the best place for low - ranking baboons is often the peripheries, in the hopes of finding food and grabbing a few kernels before information spreads, and they are supplanted by the local dominant.

Antelope predation by Nigerian forest baboons: ecological and behavioural correlates.

MSCs can suppress the T lymphocyte proliferation induced by alloantigens, mitogens and anti-CD3 and anti-CD28 antibodies in vitro, in humans, baboons and mice 12, 13, 14 15, 16, 17, 18.

Schreier, A., Swedell, L. (2008) Use of palm trees as a sleeping site by hamadryas baboons (Papio hamadryas hamadryas) in Ethiopia.

Separately, a team at the National Institutes of Health shattered longevity records for pig - to - baboon transplants by splicing human genes into the pigs and using new immunosuppressant drugs.

A sense of sheer joy is coupled with the ever - present danger posed by predators in a less - colourful, but no less spectacular, image of spirited gelada baboons as the sun sets on the Ethiopian Highlands [Additional file 3].

A male baboon, for example, might express his power by holding his breath and causing his chest to expand.

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