Baboons Need Friends Too

[dArKeR]

Among baboons, moms with lots of female friends are the most successful parents, according to a new study that supports the idea that social support is an essential part of being a baboon — or a human.

The study, appearing this week in the journal Science, found that baboon mothers who formed networks of female friends were about a third more successful at raising their young than were females who spent more time alone or isolated.

"We don't know how sociability helps females, but we do know that social females do better at raising their young," said Susan C. Alberts, a Duke University researcher and co-author of the study. "It suggests that social bonds are an important part of being primates."

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/11/13/tech/main583536.shtml

[xchrom]

1. like humans

it probably helps the to be more ''baboon''.
sort finding ''baboonness'' through the company of other baboons.

[jody]

2. For a brief moment, I thought you were pleading "Be nice to AWOL".

:hi: