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The Mellow Baboon

Posted by timothy on from the nature-nurture dept.

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."

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  1. Heh... by Copperhead · · Score: 3, Funny
    Thought it said, "its nastiest, most british members". That was a weird image...

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  2. Re:Come on, where is it? Come on, Trolls! by jc42 · · Score: 3, Funny

    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 ...

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