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1. monkeywire Baboons harrass tourists in South Africa
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- monkeywire Baboons harrass tourists in South Africa .
- Baboons go ape as tourists ignore warnings http://www. ... php?click_id=13&art_id=vn20030120054110537C306029&set_id=1 January 20 2003 at 05:41AM By Fatima Schroeder An electric fence put up behind a restaurant at Cape Point three months ago has decreased the number of attacks by baboons, but the primates are finding their way in from the parking area and are continuing to harass visitors. Tania Brooker, of the Two Oceans Restaurant, said the problem was that tourists, most of whom were foreigners, fed the baboons, ignoring notices instructing people not to. Most often, however, the baboons stole food from tourists. Sometimes the baboons singled out small children who were carrying chips. ... Restaurant manager Brett Williams said most foreign visitors thought the baboons were cute and amusing. "But the locals don't like it when the baboons enter the premises," he added. Carol Anne, of the Logo Shop, said she had seen baboons bite tourists several times last week. ... Minutes after the Cape Times arrived at Cape Point on Sunday it began to rain, but even the bad weather didn't deter the baboons from looking for food. As visitors to Buffel's Bay ran to their vehicles, the baboons seized the opportunity to snatch food. ... A brochure handed to visitors as they enter Cape Point warns that baboons are dangerous and attracted by food.
2. Abstract Thought in Baboons?
- www.psychology.uiowa.edu
- Two baboons successfully learned relational matching-to-sample: they picked the choice display that involved the same relation among 16 pictures (same or different) as the sample display although the sample display shared no pictures with the choice displays. The baboons generalized relational matching behavior to sample displays created from novel pictures. ... Two humans were similarly trained and tested; their behavior was both similar to and different from the baboons' behavior. ...
3. Baboons - Southern African Wildlife
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- Although feeding the baboons is strictly forbidden, some visitors cannot resist the temptation of such a photo opportunity. ... Consequently a human who feeds the baboons is perceived to be low in the hierarchy, an assumption which is generalized and extended to the whole human race. As a result, the baboons have come to expect any human to feed them and - on refusal - become aggressive, steal food and even attack people. A sad consequence of this is that such baboons frequently have to be shot by rangers.
- One comes across baboons in many parts of southern Africa. ... Baboons live in hordes of 20 to 100 animals in a strict hierarchy with one leading male and a few subordinate males. ...
4. Africa on the Matrix: Savanna Baboons
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- I suppose it is possible to watch baboons and not project human emotions and intentions on them, but I can't do it. ... Elephants may "ponder" just as many issues as baboons, but because they don't have humanlike hands, they can't adopt a pose recognizable to us.
- All of the baboons here belong to the "Savanna" species, but consist of three different races: chacma, olive and yellow. The chacma baboons inhabited the southern parks (the photos here come from Chobe National Park in Botswana and Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe). ... The olive baboons were found in the parks further north, including Lake Manyara National Park and the Ngorongoro Crater in northern Tanzania and the Masai Mara and Lewa Downs in Kenya.
- The chacma baboons were great fun to watch. ... The baboons revealed a variety of distinct personalities. ...
- At night, baboons take to the trees for safety from the predators of the night. Baboons' vision is very similar to our own and they do not see well in the dark. ...
- Baboons are very social animals and travel in large troops dominated by several males. ...
- In northern Tanzania and Kenya we saw olive baboons. The males, with their large manes, appear much larger than chacma baboons. ...
- In addition to the baboons, there are three other pages devoted to primates: Chimpanzees, Gorillas and Monkeys.
5. Stuart A. Altmann
- www.eeb.princeton.edu
- Most of my studies have been carried out on primates, particularly the baboons of Amboseli National Park, Kenya, and I have also worked with a variety of other mammals and birds. ...
- How well, for example, do infant mammals meet their nutritional requirements at weaning? As animals move across their home range, how is their foraging behavior affected by the spatial distribution of food plants and by seasonal changes in their growth, flowering, and fruiting? How effective are baboons at displacing other members of their group from food plants on which the victim has already invested considerable labor?.
- A recent analysis of fitness-correlates of baboon foraging has turned up a surprising result: several measures of lifetime fitness in female baboons are each highly correlated with what individuals ate years earlier, when they were yearlings, particularly, with how close their actual diets at th at age came to the protein and energy content of their energy-maximizing optimal diets. ...
6. Baboons identify each other by status and family
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- Baboons identify each other by status and family.
- 14 issue of the journal Science, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania report that, much like humans, baboons identify each other based on complex rules that determine relationships between families and status or "rank" within their particular family. ...
- "The existence of such complex social classifications in baboons, a species without language, suggests that the social pressures imposed by life in complex groups may have been one factor leading to the evolution of sophisticated cognition and language in our pre-human ancestors. ...
- For the last 12 years, Seyfarth, Dorothy Cheney, a professor in Penn's Department of Biology, and their colleagues have studied a troop of more than 80 baboons in the Okavango Delta of Botswana. ...
- The big question is whether the baboons themselves have an equally sophisticated view of their society. ...
- Dominant baboons make threatening grunts, which lower ranked baboons answer with supplicating screams. ... Then, in a playback experiment, the researchers played recorded interactions to individual baboons to see if there would be a response. ...
- "Our results demonstrated that these relationships were real and relevant to these baboons. ...
- By analyzing video of the baboons' responses to various rank-reversals, Seyfarth, Cheney and their post-doctoral colleagues Bergman and Jacinta Beehner found that baboons respond more strongly to recordings mimicking rank-reversals between families than within families. ...
- "Rank reversals within families are surprising, but rank-reversals between families are of potentially much greater importance – and we see that the baboons recognize the significance of these events," Seyfarth said. ...
7. Baboons Can Think Abstractly
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- BABOONS CAN THINK ABSTRACTLY, IN THE FIRST STUDY TO SHOW THAT A NON-HUMAN, NON-APE ANIMAL SHARES A CENTRAL ASPECT OF HUMAN INTELLIGENCE.
- Two baboons successfully used analogous thinking to match symbol arrays that were the "same but different".
- A trans-Atlantic team of psychologists has found evidence of abstract thought in baboons, significant because baboons are "old world monkeys," part of a different primate "super family" that -- some 30 million years ago -- split from the family that gave rise to apes and then humans. ... Now, two trained baboons successfully determined that two differently detailed displays were fundamentally the same in their overall design. ...
- , of the University of Iowa trained two adult baboons, one male and one female, to use a personal computer and joystick to look at and select grids that had varying collections of little pictures.
- In the foundation experiment, researchers familiarized the baboons with a screen display of 16 different little pictures (four rows of four across), such as the sun, an arrow, a light bulb, a train, and a house, OR with a display of the same little picture repeated 16 times (for example, all telephones). Researchers then presented the baboons with a series of choices of two new displays. ... Researchers rewarded the baboons for selecting, from two choices, the array that showed the same relationships among pictures as the sample.
- Researchers wanted to see whether the baboons could learn this principle. Could the baboons perceive "sameness" even when its cues were subtle and abstract?.
- The baboons did indeed learn to match the "different icons" test grids to sample grids at a rate greater than chance. ... Say the authors, "Although discriminating the relation between relations may not be an intellectual forte of baboons, it is nevertheless within their ken. ...
- In experiments 2-5, the researchers shrunk the numbers of items in the grid to see whether a lessening in variability (the "different" grids became closer to the "same" grids, a lessening in entropy) affected the baboons' choices. Both baboons and humans learned the basic task (although the humans learned far faster), and transferred it to novel sample displays, but humans were far more accurate at matching grids when the number of icons was reduced.
- The baboons and humans seemed to have different cutoff points for discerning same vs. ... To baboons, the authors suggest, the concept of "same" might be fuzzier and more inclusive.
8. Baboons Show Signs of Abstract Thought, a Human Trait
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- Summary Baboons appear to be capable of abstract thinking, according to a recent study. ...
- Front Page > Animals & Nature Baboons Show Signs of Abstract Thought, a Human Trait .
- October 15, 2001 In a finding that has surprised researchers, baboons in laboratory experiments showed hints of abstract thinking by picking out various images on a computer screen. ...
- The scientists in France and the United States who reported the results cautioned against reading too much into the findings at this stage of the research because only two baboons participated in the comparative tests and both were veterans of earlier cognitive experiments. ...
- Moreover, the baboons had to repeat the tests thousands of times to learn how sets of images were the same or different. ...
- The researchers said the results suggest nonetheless that baboons are capable of analogical judgmentthe kind of "this-is-to-that" comparisons that psychologists say is fundamental to reasoning. ...
- Baboons are Old World monkeys that split from humans and apes on the primate family tree 30 million years ago. ...
- "Although discriminating the relation between relations may not be an intellectual forte of baboons, it nevertheless is within their ken," reported Joel Fagot of the Center for Research in Cognitive Neuroscience in Marseille, France. ...
- Hamadryas Baboons.
- Lab experiments showing that baboons may be capable of abstract thinking raises new questions about evolution and what distinguishes humans from the rest of the animal kingdom.
- Reprints/Permissions MORE INFORMATION Baboons .
- Baboons are one of about 180 species of monkeys found all around the world. ...
- Baboons are the largest of all monkeys and, unlike many other monkey species, they live mainly on the ground. ... While resting, baboons often groom one another's fur. Baboons live and travel in tightly organized circles. Troops may have as many as several hundred members (although the hamadryas baboons of eastern Africa live in smaller groups). ...
9. UCSD Anthropology: Shirley C. Strum
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- A biological anthropologist specializing in primate studies, conservation, and science studies, Strum has studied one population of baboons in Kenya for 29 years. ...
- Since 1979, she has also been involved in conservation, studying the development of crop-raiding by baboons and techniques for controlling pest primates, exploring translocation as a conservation tool, and developing and implementing "community-based conservation" techniques. ...
- Strum's study group, the Pumphouse Gang, have been featured in numerous television documentaries including Survival Anglia's "History of the Pumphouse Gang" and "Moving Day for the Pumphouse Gang," National Geographic's "Among the Baboons," Canadian Broadcast Company's "Monkey Business," and Discovery's "Baboon Tales" narrated by Glen Close, which has won a number of international awards. ...
10. CBBC Newsround | Animals | French baboons baffle zoo staff
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- French baboons baffle zoo staff .
- Zoo keepers in Kent are having to learn French in order to speak to the baboons at Port Lympne wild animal park. ...
- Staff found the animals didn't respond to English, but when they used French words, like dejeuner for lunch, the baboons came running. ...
- The 19 Guinea baboons came from Paris zoo, which had too many of the creatures. ...
- But Ms Chrisp is worried in case the next load of baboons may come from somewhere with a more difficult language - she may have to hire interpreters! .
11. African Wildlife Foundation: Wildlives
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- Apart from humans, baboons are the most adaptable of the ground-dwelling primates and live in a wide variety of habitats. ...
- The two most common baboons occur in East Africa, the olive baboon and the yellow baboon. ...
- Baboons are found in surprisingly varied habitats and are extremely adaptable. ... When water is readily available, baboons drink every day or two, but they can survive for long periods by licking the night dew from their fur. ...
- Baboons usually leave their sleeping places around 7 or 8 a. ... Before retiring, they spend more time in mutual grooming, a key way of forming bonds among individuals as well as keeping the baboons clean and free of external parasites. ...
- Baboons sleep, travel, feed and socialize together in groups of about 50 individuals, consisting of seven to eight males and approximately twice as many females plus their young. ... It often overlaps with the range of other baboons, but the troops seem to avoid meeting one another. ...
- Baboons are opportunistic omnivores and selective feeders that carefully choose their food. ... Baboons also eat insects and small quantities of meat, such as fish, shellfish, hares, birds, vervet monkeys and young, small antelopes. ...
- Knowing that humans can easily kill or injure them when they are in trees, baboons usually escape through undergrowth. ... Baboons are fierce fighters, but a demonstration such as this can put the predator on the run.
- Baboons use over 30 vocalizations ranging from grunts to barks to screams. ...
12. Baboons Can Think Abstractly, In The First Study To Show That A Non-Human, Non-Ape Animal Shares A Central Aspect Of Human Intelligence
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- Baboons Can Think Abstractly, In The First Study To Show That A Non-Human, Non-Ape Animal Shares A Central Aspect Of Human Intelligence.
- A trans-Atlantic team of psychologists has found evidence of abstract thought in baboons, significant because baboons are "old world monkeys," part of a different primate "super family" that -- some 30 million years ago -- split from the family that gave rise to apes and then humans. ... Now, two trained baboons successfully determined that two differently detailed displays were fundamentally the same in their overall design. ...
- Baboons Have Voice And Communication But Not The "Theory Of Mind" To Understand How Their Communications Will Affect Others (February 29, 2000) -- Researchers studying the behavior of animals in their natural environment have long heard the calls of animals separated from their group and what was assumed were call-backs from the group to. ...
- Baboon Studies Reveal Pressures And Benefits Of Complex Social Societies (November 17, 2003) -- Can the complex loves and rivalries of baboons in Botswana's Okavango Delta rival the social dynamics of Shakespeare's Romeo and. ...
- Baboon Behavior Offers Clues In The All-too-human Battle Of The Bulge; Don't Be Too Quick To Blame Your Diet, New Research Suggests (March 13, 2003) -- Lack of exercise - and not diet - causes obesity and diabetes among those who are predisposed to the conditions, suggests new research on wild baboons by Saint Louis University geriatricians. ...
- , of the University of Iowa trained two adult baboons, one male and one female, to use a personal computer and joystick to look at and select grids that had varying collections of little pictures. ...
- In the foundation experiment, researchers familiarized the baboons with a screen display of 16 different little pictures (four rows of four across), such as the sun, an arrow, a light bulb, a train, and a house, OR with a display of the same little picture repeated 16 times (for example, all telephones). Researchers then presented the baboons with a series of choices of two new displays. ... Researchers rewarded the baboons for selecting, from two choices, the array that showed the same relationships among pictures as the sample. ...
- Researchers wanted to see whether the baboons could learn this principle. Could the baboons perceive "sameness" even when its cues were subtle and abstract? .
- The baboons did indeed learn to match the "different icons" test grids to sample grids at a rate greater than chance. ... Say the authors, "Although discriminating the relation between relations may not be an intellectual forte of baboons, it is nevertheless within their ken. ...
- In experiments 2-5, the researchers shrunk the numbers of items in the grid to see whether a lessening in variability (the "different" grids became closer to the "same" grids, a lessening in entropy) affected the baboons' choices. Both baboons and humans learned the basic task (although the humans learned far faster), and transferred it to novel sample displays, but humans were far more accurate at matching grids when the number of icons was reduced. ...
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