Thursday, May 25, 2017

Who's at the center of a baboon's pack?

05/25/2017 05:17 PM EDT

an adult male baboon and an adult female with clinging infant forage for food

Using high-resolution GPS tracking, University of California, Davis, Assistant Professor Margaret Crofoot and her team of researchers continuously monitored the movements of nearly an entire baboon troop in central Kenya to discover how interactions among group-mates influenced where in the troop individuals tended to be found. Similar to humans, some animals consistently were found in the vanguard of their troop while others crowd to the center or lag in the rear.


Full story at http://blogs.ucdavis.edu/egghead/2017/05/17/wallflower-center-pack-baboons-find-place/

Source
University of California, Davis


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