Majority rules when baboons vote with their feet
Thursday, June 18, 2015 - 15:04
in Psychology & Sociology
Olive baboon troops decide where to move democratically, despite their hierarchical social order, according to a new report. At the Mpala Research Centre in Kenya, biologists conducted the first-ever group-level GPS tracking study of primates, finding that any individual baboon can contribute to a troop's collective movement.