A baboon on the edge of a wild and an urban area is "the most difficult animal in the world to manage", O'Riain said. "They are strong, they can climb… and they can learn from each other ...
The paper, by A. Strandburg-Peshkin at Princeton University in Princeton, NJ, and colleagues was titled, "Shared decision-making drives collective movement in wild baboons." ...
Females and infants used areas that were inaccessible to males and no group size differences were found. In the wild, baboons (Papio sp.) spend up to 70 per cent of their time on the ground covering ...
As human development of the Cape expands, so the baboons get “pushed higher and higher up the mountain” where foraging conditions are harder, O’Riain added. Therefore, naturally, people’s lush gardens ...