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  2. Baboon - Wikipedia

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    The hamadryas baboon group will typically include a younger male, but he will not attempt to mate with the females unless the older male is removed. In the harems of the hamadryas baboons, the males jealously guard their females, to the point of grabbing and biting the females when they wander too far away.

  3. Sexual coercion among animals - Wikipedia

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    This behavior also occurs in hamadryas baboons (Papio hamadryas), where the leader males practice intensive mate guarding. [26] In Drosophila montana, studies have shown that following mate guarding, the chances of a female mating with or being inseminated by another male were greatly diminished. This shows that the mate guarding tactic can be ...

  4. Barbara Smuts - Wikipedia

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    Smuts began studies of wild baboons in 1976, [6] and her observations challenged the prevailing view of male dominance. [7] Studies she made of wild olive baboons in Tanzania and Kenya inspired her 1985 book Sex and Friendship in Baboons. The book, the fruit of two years' research, showed how two different groups of the same primate interact ...

  5. How Cape Town is learning to live with baboons

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    Baboon researcher Esme Beamish, from Cape Town University’s Institute for Communities and Wildlife in Africa, explains that it makes sense for the monkeys to venture into the city in search of food.

  6. The Biggest Myths About Motherhood in the Animal Kingdom - AOL

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    A four-week-old baboon hangs from its mother at the zoo in Cali, Colombia on May 20, 2022. Credit - Raul Arboleda–AFP/Getty Images. M y closest brush with motherhood was an intense 24 hours ...

  7. Primate behaviour changed as zoos closed for pandemic ... - AOL

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    A new study looked at how the behaviour of bonobos, chimpanzees, western lowland gorillas and olive baboons changed as people started to return to zoos. As visitors returned, bonobos and gorillas ...

  8. Primate sociality - Wikipedia

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    Primate sociality. Group of bonobos relaxing and grooming.. Primate sociality is an area of primatology that aims to study the interactions between three main elements of a primate social network: the social organisation, the social structure and the mating system.

  9. Yes, some animals can have babies without a mate. Here's how

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    A boa constrictor in the U.K. gave birth to 14 babies — without a mate. The process is called parthenogenesis, from the Greek words for “virgin” and “birth.” It tends to occur in ...