Sentences with phrase «from wild baboons»
Research from wild baboons provides insight into perhaps the best way to combat daily, psychological stress.
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The findings, appearing online Jan. 18 in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, come from a long - term study of wild baboons monitored on a near - daily basis since 1971 at Amboseli.
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.
But nearly 30 years of data on wild baboons shows that top - ranking males, despite showing signs of increased stress, recover more quickly than low - ranking baboons from wounds and illness.
To try to tease out the relationship between social rank, stress, and health, Altmann teamed up with Elizabeth Archie, a behavioral ecologist at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, and Susan Alberts, a behavioral ecologist at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, to analyze data collected from 1982 through 2009 in the Amboseli region of Kenya, home to a large population of wild baboons.
The researchers collected fecal samples from wild and captive macaques, langurs, gibbons, baboons, and mandrills from Bangladesh and Cambodia.
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.
Latest research on social networks in wild baboon troops has revealed how the animals get information from each other on the whereabouts of food.
Schreier, A. (2008) Composition and seasonality of diet in wild hamadryas baboons: preliminary findings from Filoha.
Have a barbecue in the boma while enjoying the luxury of a seven - seater Jacuzzi and watch wild animals such as giraffe, zebra, kudu, warthog, impala, baboons and more than 100 bird species drink at the waterhole located just 10 m from the house.
From the gorgeous gelada baboons living on Ethiopia's plateaus to cheetahs in Namibia, and of course an African safari to see the Big 5, Africa's wilds are without a doubt my number one dream destination.