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The Mellow Baboon
obehave writes " You've seen life in a baboon troop on TV: the epitome of nasty, brutish,
and short. So what happens when a baboon troop loses its nastiest, most
brutish members?
PLoS Biology,
an open-access science journal,
reports the curious story of a baboon troop which lost the
nastiest half of its male population through natural causes.
The troop became different and the difference persisted through
a generational change.
Here's the
synopsis,
the
full article,
and a
commentary."
You sir are a BABOON!
"obligatory Simpsons remark"
we^H^Hthey now have a justification for the creation of a master aryan baboon race.
; -- the corruption of government starts with its secrets. a truly free people keep no secrets. --
Your reality is lies and balderdash and I'm delighted to say that I have no grasp of it whatsoever. - Baron Munchausen
I'd be a lot more relaxed if there were 50% as many men where I lived, too. Unclear whether that's still the case after their "generational change."
There are no trails. There are no trees out here.
Nah; the trolls are busy working on comparisons with the current American administration, and wondering how to best phrase the suggestion that a similar experiment be tried in November.
...
Somebody's gotta have a way of phrasing this so it gets a +5 funny mod.
Maybe I'll go off and work on it
Those who do study history are doomed to stand helplessly by while everyone else repeats it.
When my beautiful, brilliant, charming daughter
was born, I finally realized the meaning of
Hobbes' phrase "nasty, brutish, and short".
Of course she wasn't beautiful at the start.
She was bloody, slimy, and looked like Winston
Churchill. But I'm told they all do.
-I like my women like I like my tea: green-