baboon

Oh yeah? Well what if I told you that scientists have recently made discoveries that suggest baboons are capable of abstract thought?

We used to hunt bush meat together as kids, huh? Baboons, they were the hardest to catch. They're. . . They're cunning. Cunning creatures.

The conclusions come from a 15-year study of a group of baboons in the Moremi Game Reserve of the Okavango Delta in Botswana.

Granted, I've only mentioned baboons and starlings, but there you've got a mammalian representative and an avian one.

For instance, I know chimpanzees have demonstrated abstract thought. But baboons are on a whole different limb of the evolutionary tree.

Some South African residents are struggling to deal with a ruthless "criminal gang" : more than 300 baboons.

His encounters with lions, baboons and many other species alien to the New World were a familiar and acceptable genre.

I pondered this earlier today, as I watched the lions devour the buffalo, the leopard attack the impala, the baboons stealing breakfast.

W: So far they haven't tried it with people, but they've made it work with baboons.

The monkey soldiers compose of macaques and baboons. They were caught by hunters in their baby times and were then sold to Taliban.

Baboons are a common sight all over the area.

Baboons have a large head, cheek pouches, and a long, dog like muzzle. They walk on all fours , carrying the tail in a characteristic arch.

Primates apes suborder narrow nose Group monkeys Section 1 genus, commonly known as baboons.

Prof Kirkpatrick also provides this sample of Nigerian pidgin English: "Monkey de work, baboon dey chop" (Monkeys work, baboons eat).

Baboons, even the smaller living species, are very formidable creatures.

Most female baboons have lost half an ear here, a swatch of pelt there, to the jealous fury of their much larger and toothier mates.

On this Moment of Science Yael and Don discuss some interesting findings about baboons .

But baboons are on a whole different limb of the evolutionary tree.

The findings in baboons may lend humans some added insight into our own social lives, the researchers said.

Indeed, an older study in baboons found that interstitial pulmonary oedema deelops after albumin infusion in haemorrhagic shock.

The aggressive baboons are fast becoming a local tourist sight for visitors to the Cape Peninsula.

Baboons who had strong relationships also had low glucocorticoid levels and outlived the more isolated baboons by about three years.

Baboons can be trusted to steal food whenever possible.

Robert Sapolsky, Professor of Neurology at Stanford University, has been studying stress in wild baboons for more than three decades.

The study was of baboons - but a recent study of 10, 000 government workers also yielded similar results.

The day I think about climbing Mount Everest will be the day they prove that humans aren't that much different from baboons.

Once every three years it returned, carrying gold, silver and ivory, and apes and baboons.

An hour into the journey, we spot a troop of baboons preening each other on a hillock.

Four hundred Gelada baboons live in tight groups, where the dominant males rule with flash attacks of strength and terror.

But obese baboons in San Antonio doubled or tripled their food intake when they got the drug.

The latest evidence comes from wild baboons in Kenya's Amboseli basin.

On Saturday nights, we'd lie on the couch grooming each other like baboons and feed each other ice cream.

The Bushment trick baboons into showing them where the water is by placing some choice nuts inside a hollow tree.

Get up and do some exercises you lazy baboons!

What do baboons keep in their cheek pouches?

Past research reveals that nonhuman male primates (such as baboons and chimpanzees) are attracted to females displaying red.

Charm is relatively rare among baboons.

Baboons keep food in their cheek pouches.

The toolkit also has ideas to control baboons.

Now a new analysis shows the same is true for baboons.

Only if one posits that humans, not animals, are created in the image of God do humans have any greater intrinsic sanctity than baboons.

Our small hominid ancestors probably faced the same kinds of threats that baboons do today from leopards, eagles, and other predators.

What do baboons look like?

The day I think about climbing Mount Everest will be the day baboons fly to the moon.

Baboons have a fear of snakes. They also have good memories.

The flamingos and baboons here at Lake Bogoria live in harmony.

Look at mine, I bring so many eggs which our baboons enjoy here.

Baboons that live in close social groups are healthier and have longer-lived children, according to scientists.

Female baboons and chimpanzees redden when nearing ovulation, for example.

While baboons are known to eat reptiles, birds and some mammals such as hares, they have never before been recorded eating bats.