Sentences with phrase «studied wild baboons»

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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.

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.