Polygamous baboon fathers get more grandchildren if they spend a little time with their children during their juvenile years, according to new research. The findings, in well-studied social groupings ...

The yellow baboons in question live in Kenya's Amboseli National Park and have been the subject of ongoing observation for nearly 40 years, making them one of the best-studied wild mammal populations ...

Genetic analyses of baboons in Kenya reveals that most of them carry traces of hybridization in their DNA. As a result of interbreeding, about a third of their genetic makeup consists of genes from ...

STAY-AT-HOME dads really do make a difference to the success of their offspring, at least among yellow baboons. Daughters, and some sons, who get help from their fathers enjoy a reproductive head ...

The Amboseli Baboon Project is a long-term, coordinated series of studies of yellow baboons, Papio cynocephalus, in the Amboseli region of East Africa, immediately north and west of Mt. Kilimanjaro.

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DURHAM, N.C. -- Polygamous baboon fathers get more grandchildren if they spend a little time with their children during their juvenile years, according to research directed by scientists at Duke and ...