The following report is called "Being sociable is good for your health – if you're a baboon" and is about how animal behavior can influence in their longer-lived offspring. The reserch was made in a female baboons population so the scientists tried to relate this situation in our own behavior and how this could improved our mental and physical wellbeing. I like this news because one of my favourite areas in the career so far is "animal behavior" specially in wild animals like primates.
The scientits ahead Robert Seyfarth and Dorothy Cheney from the University of Pennsylvania obtained their conclutions after 15 years of studies in a population from Moremi Game Reserve in Botswana .The observations was really long and consisted in 7 hours per day, six days a week all this in a period of 15 years and they observed specially 66 adult females and their reproductives lives.The analysis published by Joan Silk was that the females who create more social bonds had the chance to live 5 years more than the female with weaker social bonds.Silk said "Being sociable means that you spend more time close to others, and this makes you safer from predators so they they might be able to forage more efficiently and nourish their offspring".
Also in other work the scientists have shown how strong social bonds can improved stressful events in female baboon´s lifes and how short benefits can become into long benefits creating better fitness.The measured of strength of social bonds in Silk´s work was the "Friendship" that every female development including factors like frequency and duration of grooming others, how often a baboon requested grooming from others and the approaches between animals.
Andrew King a behavior ecologist at the University of Cambridge who also studied baboon social behavior said that the research can supported the link between baboons, humans and their ancestor and the fact that all have a common role "creating social bonds" and this event could have helped to the human evolution.
News link : http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/jun/10/social-bonds-health-baboons
The following report is called "Being sociable is good for your health – if you're a baboon" and is about how animal behavior can influence in their longer-lived offspring. The SP reserch was made in a female baboons population so the scientists tried to relate this situation in our own behavior and how this could WF improved our mental and physical wellbeing. I like this news because one of my favourite areas in the career so far is "animal behavior" specially in wild animals like primates.
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Also in other work the scientists have shown how strong social bonds can WF improved stressful events in female baboon´s WF lifes and how short benefits can become into long benefits creating better fitness.The measured of strength of social bonds in Silk´s work was the "Friendship" that every female development including factors like frequency and duration of grooming others, how often a baboon requested grooming from others and the approaches between animals.
Andrew King a behavior ecologist at the University of Cambridge who also studied baboon social behavior said that the research can supported the link between baboons, humans and their ancestor and the fact that all have a common role "creating social bonds" and this event could have helped to the human evolution.
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