Baboon

Today I gather the Monkey Village and Baboon/Mandrill diets. Philip double check them and we were missing the training grapes so we had to wait until someone grabbed them for us. The meeting was short with very little that was new. The only thing that was new was information about the spider monkey, Debbie. It appears that she is having some issues with food and the medical staff wanted the buffer to service them in the afternoon. Philip got me started on cleaning the exhibits while he prepared the diets. It was the same routine as yesterday but he wanted me to also check the lick sticks and the hot wire. I was going through everything when I had forgotten to check the lick sticks, so as I was placing out their food I also checked the…

This morning I gathered the diets for all three trails, cleaned a few dishes left from last night and waited for the meeting. There was a mix up at commissary this morning: they did not give us the melon and banana that are needed for medication. Also there was an issue with the amount of lettuce given for the afternoon. Metting: There is an LC meeting at 12:30. Baboon is not getting any help from Buffer. Monkey Village there have been several females that have been in estrus this week,…

but I am against having these insecure, violent alpha males run our society. To understand why, let’s look at one more primate: baboons. In Robert Sapolsky’s book, A Primate’s Memoir: A Neuroscientist’s Unconventional Life Among the Baboons, it describes a typical alpha male dominated society (lots of stress, specifically high levels of glucocorticoids, and violence for everyone, even, eventually, for the alpha male). But something very odd happened to the troop he was observing. Some poachers…

2.) In consideration of the relationship between the Intermembral index and the habitual mode of locomotion for the six different primates, the collected data suggests that the lower the index is, the greater the chance for bipedalism as the “default,” or main movement. Versus a higher index which instead suggests the preferred ability of moving with the arms (e.g. swinging). Moreover, primates with an index closer to a total of 100 appear to assume quadrupedalism. This query can be seen when…

description The chacma baboon is perhaps the longest species of monkey, with a male body length of 50–115 cm (20–45 in) and tail length of 45–84 cm (18–33 in).[5][6] It also one of the heaviest; the male weighs from 21 to 45 kg (46 to 99 lb) with an average of 31.8 kg (70 lb). Baboons are sexually dimorphic, and females are considerably smaller than males. The female chacma weighs from 12 to 25 kg (26 to 55 lb), with an average of 15.4 kg (34 lb).[7][8][9][10] It is similar in size to the olive…

Whether it is in an animal or human society, dominant individuals in social hierarchies receive benefits, but it is important to consider the possible costs that come with being at the top. A high dominance rank in animal societies is advantageous and beneficial in reproductive success and health, however staying at the top position can also involve more energetic costs. Do high-ranking males experience higher levels of testosterone and glucocorticoid in unstable hierarchies? Researchers in…

This morning started like normal where I gathered the Monkey Village cart and then gathered the Baboon cart. I had asked Denise for her cart key so I could get the Baboon cart. I had placed all of the food in both carts while waiting for Denise and Amy. There was a relief keeper for Baboon/Mandrill, so I was told not to move the carts and that we would meet at the commissary today. I meet the relief keeper, Stephanie. In which I gathered she is a quite person as she did not introduce…

most important aspect of olive baboons mating systems is their involvement in consortships. Male baboons will follow female baboons around, guarding them from other males and participating in frequent grooming and sexual mountings (Bercovitch 1983). Due to the fact that other male olive baboons often harass couples in consortship, often there is a large male turnover during a single female fertility period—thus their polyandrous behavior. Female baboons often consort with an average of three…

the professor use baboons to be an example which explaining baboons will change their behavior while they get stressed from the environmental. It will contribute telomere disappear. If baboons are losing telomere on their DNA, it will be hard for them to keep a health life and control their emotion. Furthermore, I think that humans and baboons have the same psycho and behavior. For example, if humans get environment pressure and stress from their daily life, humans will make an adjustment to…

Hotel Dump A man named Robert Sapolsky traveled to Kenya every year to study a particular baboon troop for his research. Sapolsky described his experience, “…suddenly they are all around you and you choke up and swim in them— who looks exactly the same, who has aged, who has a new scar, who has new pubescent muscles…. And, of course, you see who is no longer there.” One day, the wardens mentioned to Sapolsky that the baboons were “falling out of trees” due to some sort of disease at the far…