New York Times :: No Time for Bullies: Baboons Retool Their Culture
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> In a study appearing today in the journal PloS Biology
> (online at www.plosbiology.org), researchers describe the
> drastic temperamental and tonal shift that occurred in a
> troop of 62 baboons when its most belligerent members
> vanished from the scene. The victims were all dominant
> adult males that had been strong and snarly enough to fight
> with a neighboring baboon troop over the spoils at a
> tourist lodge garbage dump, and were exposed there to meat
> tainted with bovine tuberculosis, which soon killed them.

Who knows? Maybe Baghdad will prove just the piece of tainted dumpster meat that this country needs.
posted by Tomohiro Idokoro @ 7:52 AM

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