Sentences with phrase «in wild baboons»

Latest research on social networks in wild baboon troops has revealed how the animals get information from each other on the whereabouts of food.

Not exact matches

Ledi - Geraru hosted a different fauna just 200,000 years later, with grazers such as gazelles, zebras, wild pigs, and a baboon at home in open grasslands like the Serengeti.

This relatively rare occurrence allowed the researchers to examine possible differences in the social bonds and behavior of wild immature baboons that grow up with or without the influence of mothers and fathers.

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.

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.

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.

Using the comparative approach, we use observations, non-invasive hormone sampling and field experiments to address these questions in chimpanzees and other wild primates, including bonobos, baboons and sooty mangabeys.

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.

Sexual swelling symmetry, individual quality, and attractiveness in wild female olive baboons (Papio anubis)[Master's thesis].

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.

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

Schreier, A.L. (2008) Ranging patterns in wild hamadryas baboons in Ethiopia.

Schreier, A. (2008) Composition and seasonality of diet in wild hamadryas baboons: preliminary findings from Filoha.

Schreier, A.L., Swedell, L. (2010) Resource availability and social structure in wild hamadryas baboons.

The baboon quantitative genetics research spun off into a quantitative genetic analysis of dental variation in wild type mice, finding a conserved pattern of genetic modularity (Molecular and Developmental Evolution, 2011, vol 316B: 21 - 49).

The breed was formally named in the 1870s when the Hope Fountain Mission in Rhodesia started breeding dogs with ridges to be used for hunting, including lions, baboons and wild pigs.

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.