Adult male baboons are bad dudes. They regularly square off in bloody fights over access to food and females, whom they will also attack. In this vicious pecking order, males at the top bully bottom dwellers into a demoralized state of submission.
PEACEMAKERS. Female olive baboons, such as this mother, may have transmitted cooperative attitudes to males that entered an African troop.
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