Sentences with phrase «of wild baboons»

The only sign of life is the constant squawking of tropical birds and frogs; the unnerving squeals of wild baboons and the humming of grasshoppers.

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 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.

But of course atheists et al are like ravenous wolves and worst than a troop of wild baboons.

Not exact matches

Covering about 32,020 hectares of forest land, the Kalakpa Game Reserve traverses two traditional areas; Adaklu and Abutia, and it is home for wild animals such as buffaloes, antelopes, baboons and smaller mammals.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

chreier, A.L. (2010) Feeding ecology, food availability, and ranging patterns of wild hamadryas baboons at Filoha.

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).

And after you've had your fill of beaches, head to Gorongosa National Park to view some of the country's wildlife — including wild elephants and baboons.

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.