Sentences with phrase «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.

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

Along with a group of scientists — including co-authors Robert Seyfarth, also at the University of Pennsylvania, and primatologist Joan Silk of Arizona State University, Tempe — Cheney has studied wild baboons at the Moremi Game Reserve in Botswana for almost 20 years.

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.

Research from wild baboons provides insight into perhaps the best way to combat daily, psychological stress.

Scientists observing wild baboons noticed that females tend to call more after sex with a higher - ranking, dominant male.

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.

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

In both parks skin ulcerations caused by Treponema are common in wild baboons.

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