Alice Baniel, Guy Cowlishaw, and Elise Huchard, «Context dependence of female reproductive competition in wild
chacma baboons», Animal Behaviour, vol.
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.
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.
Harassing fertile female
chacma baboons appears to give males a better chance of mating with them.
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.
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.
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.
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.