Sentences with phrase «of gelada»
Louise Barrett, Robin Dunbar and Patsy Dunbar of University College in London analysed observations made of gelada baboons in Ethiopia.
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To see if geladas take steps to conceal their unfaithfulness, le Roux and her colleagues observed the mating behaviors of 19 reproductive units living in the Simien Mountains National Park in Ethiopia.
However, Sterck said, the study shows no more proof of tactical deception than her own work with long - tailed macaques, and the gelada's apparent tailoring of vocalizations could just be a learned behavior.
Gelada baboons (Theropithecus gelada) live in small units, which consist of up to a dozen females, a few subordinate males and a dominant male, who holds exclusive reproductive rights to the females.
«The gelada case is comparable to what early domestication of dogs might have been like,» study researcher Claudio Sillero, of the University of Oxford, told New Scientist's Bob Holmes.
«You can have a wolf and a gelada within a metre or two of each other and virtually ignoring each other for up to 2 hours at a time,» says [study researche Vivek] Venkataraman.
A primate found exclusively in the highlands of Ethiopia, the gelada, Theropithecus gelada, is a baboon - like monkey.
Geladas spend the bulk of their days sitting in fields eating grass, and by night they climb onto the ledges of cliff faces to sleep.
According to Barrett: «Ecological constraints acting on juveniles determine the level of social interaction between infant and juvenile gelada.»
In conjunction with its policy of developing more naturalistic settings for the primates, the zoo has, in recent years, successfully established breeding groups or pairs of lemurs, lion - tailed macaques, Japanese macaques, gelada baboons, proboscis monkeys, slow lorises and gibbons.
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].
Straying from your natural grass blade and grass seed based diet clearly is depriving your gelada brain of essential nutrients.
The baboon - like geladas have beautiful long blonde hair and pose in front of Africa's most dramatic mountain scenery.
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.