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Female baboons with close father bonds tend to live longer lives, study finds
A team of biologists and wildlife specialists from the University of Notre Dame and Duke University, in the U.S., and Amboseli Baboon Research Project, in Kenya, has found evidence that female baboons who have relatively strong ties with their fathers while growing up tend to live longer lives. For their study, published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, the group tracked the lifespans of more than 200 wild female b…
When male baboons take care of their female offspring, this has a positive effect on their lifetime. This is shown by a recent study from Kenya.
A father-daughter bond is rare in the animal kingdom. However, some baboons in Kenya produce it – and this, according to a new study, brings measurable benefits to the offspring.
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Aristegui NoticiasScience Writing, 18 Jun (EFE).- Very few mammals are cared for by their male parent, but when they do, they can benefit the children, as pointed out by a research on the father-daughter bond between the baboons during the early years of life, which improves the survival of the females. The study published by Processings of the Royal Society B and leads the University of Notre Dame (USA) analyzed the influence on the daughters when the baboon fat…
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