How to Win Friends and Influence Baboons

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Science, Natural Sciences, History, Society & Culture, Documentary

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🗓️ 31 October 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Baboon troops. We all know they’re hierarchical. There’s the big brutish alpha male who rules with a hairy iron fist, and then there’s everybody else. Which is what Meg Crofoot thought too, before she used GPS collars to track the movements of a troop of baboons for a whole month. What she and her team learned from this data gave them a whole new understanding of baboon troop dynamics, and, moment to moment, who really has the power.

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