Sentences with word «chacma»

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.

I am currently focusing on female reproductive competition and on sexual conflict between males and females in a wild population of chacma baboon living in Namibia.

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.

Alice Baniel, Guy Cowlishaw, and Elise Huchard, «Context dependence of female reproductive competition in wild chacma baboons», Animal Behaviour, vol.

Harassing fertile female chacma baboons appears to give males a better chance of mating with them.

The male chacma are about twice the size of females and aggressively fight one another and engage in howling competitions to establish dominance.

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 1986.

To conduct the research, Elise Huchard, a zoologist at the National Center for Scientific Research in Montpellier, France, and colleagues examined a group of chacma baboons (Papio ursinus) living in Tsaobis Nature Park in Namibia over a 9 - year period.

New research shows that chacma baboons within a troop spend more of their time with baboons that have similar characteristics to themselves: associating with those of a similar age, dominance rank and even personality type such as boldness.

The somango monkey, nocturnal greater and lesser bushbabies, chacma baboons and vervet monkeys are all present.

Hippo, crocodile, bush babies, chacma baboon, waterbuck, kudu, impala, warthog and spotted hyaena have all been seen from the deck with signs (audio and tracks) of other more elusive creatures (leopard, pelts fishing owl and wood owl) ever present.