Sentences with phrase «studies baboon»

«When people see an animal that they think is frightening... the most common response is to take a photo and post it to social media,» says Heather Campbell at Harper Adams University, UK, who studies baboon spiders, a group of African tarantulas.

The computers cued up the appropriate test for each of the six study baboons using microchips in their arms.

Using these data, the researchers studied the baboons» movements relative to one another.

Barbara J. King, a biological anthropologist at the College of William & Mary, has studied baboons in Kenya and great apes in captivity.

Not exact matches

«Study author Dr Gabriele Macho examined the diet of Paranthropus boisei, nicknamed «Nutcra.cker Man» because of his big flat molar teeth and powerful jaws, THROUGH STUDYING MODERN - DAY BABOONS IN KENYA..

Now a new study with a troop of zoo baboons and lots of peanuts shows that a less obvious trait - the ability to understand numbers - also is shared by humans and their primate cousins.

Sapolsky would have likely not ever studied such relationships if it weren't for his initial interests in baboon social behavior and his love of Africa.

In a previous study, the team showed that whilst the management strategy was keeping baboons away from the urban space, some males were still finding ways in.

That's the conclusion reached by Louise Barrett at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada, who studied 11 years of observations from a baboon troop in De Hoop Nature Reserve, South Africa.

We had to find another method to document the very special techniques baboons were adopting when raiding,» said Swansea University PhD researcher Gaëlle Fehlmann, lead author of the study who carried out the fieldwork in South Africa.

«Our preliminary collars that we deployed in the first field season came up with interesting results, but only provided a couple of weeks of data; they needed to be more robust to keep up with the baboons,» added Dr Andrew King, head of Swansea University's SHOAL (Sociality, Heterogeneity, Organisation And Leadership) research group in the College of Science, who is the senior author of the study.

You know they will pay you back in some form, at some point — so no worries, says Joan Silk, an evolutionary biologist at Arizona State University in Tempe who has spent most of her career studying social relationships in primates, specifically female baboons.

A new study found that female baboons that had the most stable relationships with other females weren't always the highest up in the dominance hierarchy or the ones with close kin around — but they were the nicest.

The team studied a captive group of Guinea baboons at the Brookfield Zoo in Chicago for 3 months and found that instead of persuading more males to mate, a female's calls put off potential suitors.

The results of a second study published in the same issue reveal another benefit to baboon socializing: more successful mothering.

The National Institutes of Health had agreed to fund the study, which involved creating an animal model of anthrax infection in baboons, and the university's animal use and care committee had given it the green light.

The study's experimental design required that the group stop the experiment at 3 months, though the baboon was still «in very good condition,» University of Munich cardiac surgeon Paolo Brenner said after the presentation.

Lynch and her colleagues studied the movements and interactions of a group of 39 immature olive baboons (Papio hamadryas anubis) in the Laikipia district of Kenya for fourteen months.

By studying the mitochondrial and Y chromosome DNA as well as other genetic data from the animal, Link Olson of the University of Alaska Museum determined that it was more closely related to savanna baboons than mangabeys.

«Sibling bonding is stronger when dad's around: Animal study: First study examining how baboon fathers influence relationships between their offspring.»

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.

«Desperate times lead to desperate measures,» so the saying goes, and a new study finds male baboons are no exception.

Working with three Kenyan field assistants who observed the baboons 6 days a week, 52 weeks each year, the team noted 633 cases of either illness or injury in 166 adult male baboons over the 27 - year course of the study.

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.

The features were discovered after detailed study of the shapes of molars and premolars inherited by baboons in a long - studied colony at the Southwest National Primate Research Center in San Antonio, Texas.

By SUE ARMSTRONG (see Graphic) Each dry season, Conrad Brain is plagued by the same melancholy thought — that he may be watching the dying days of the troop of chacma baboons he has been studying since 1986.

Wasser hadn't come to Africa to work on elephants; he was there studying how female baboons curtail their reproduction when resources grow scarce, and he was interested in measuring changes in the hormones that regulate stress and reproduction.

For example, she noted that in a recent study using baboons, those animals that succeeded in matching same and different relations required over 15,000 trials.

In the 1970s biologists studying pregnant baboons were shocked as they looked at electron microscope images of the placenta.

The authors of the new study — a multicenter effort led by Kent State University anthropologists C. Owen Lovejoy and Mary Ann Raghanti and published January 22 in PNAS — began by measuring neurotransmitter levels in brain samples from humans, chimpanzees, gorillas, baboons and monkeys, all of whom had died of natural causes.

A detailed study of the inherited shapes and sizes of baboon teeth led to the discovery of a dental trait that can be used to track the evolution of primates over the last 20 million years.

A new study, by researchers from the University of Cambridge and the Zoological Society of London, shows how baboons monitor each other for changes in behaviour that indicate food has been found, such as hunching over to scoop it up.

UC Berkeley paleontologists studied the molars and premolars of baboons to uncover inherited dental traits that can help track primate and human evolution.

The study is the first to monitor baboon social network structures over such a timescale and is published today in the journal Royal Society Open Science.

Alberts is skeptical of drawing any evolutionary implications from the study, because human biology and social dynamics are so different from that of baboons.

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.

Baboon troops can be sizable, sometimes as many as 100 members, with the troops in the latest study numbering around 70.

People have evolved to sleep much less than chimps, baboons or any other primate studied so far, a new study finds.

Consistent with these studies, Bartholomew et al 92 showed that allogeneic baboon MSC suppressed the proliferative activity of lymphocytes in vitro and prolonged graft survival.

He has studied chimpanzees in Gombe (with Jane Goodall) and Kibale, vervet monkeys and gelada baboons.

Experimental animal studies have shown that Borrelia burgdorferi, the agent of Lyme borreliosis, consistently establishes persistent infections in a variety of immunocompetent hosts, including laboratory mice [1], white - footed mice (Peromyscus leucopus)[2], [3], [4], rats [5], hamsters [6], guinea pigs [7], gerbils [8], dogs [9], and nonhuman primates, including rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta)[10] and baboons (Papio spp.)[11].

Via case studies involving everything from baboon behavior to MRI imaging, Fisher delves deep into the hows and whys of love, providing us the insights we need to love better.

Via case studies involving everything from baboon behaviour to MRI imaging, Fisher delves deep into the hows and whys of love, providing us the insights we need to love better.

In the lab I was studying why an excess of stress hormones had adverse consequences for health (in particular, damaging neurons), while with the baboons, I wanted to understand what social factors predicted who secreted more or less of those stress hormones.

As far as primates go, are baboons easy or difficult to observe and study?

These days, I study things like differences in «cultures» between troops of baboons, how the cultures are propagated, the consequences of the differing cultures for the health of individuals.