Assessment of buprenorphine, carprofen, and their combination for postoperative analgesia in olive baboons (Papio anubis).

Olive baboons, Papio anubis, adjust their visual and auditory intentional gestures to the visual attention of others

Cue-reading by Olive Baboons in a Competitive Task

The ability of four olive baboons (Papio anubis) to use human gaze cues during a competitive task was investigated; the baboons were allowed to remove only the non-fixated one of two simultaneously presented food items. Three baboons successfully learned to exploit the human’s head orientation as a cue to obtain a food item, and one individual also learned to use eye direction alone. As the bab...

Inherently Analog Quantity Representations in Olive Baboons (Papio anubis)

Strong evidence indicates that non-human primates possess a numerical representation system, but the inherent nature of that system is still debated. Two cognitive mechanisms have been proposed to account for non-human primate numerical performance: (1) a discrete object-file system limited to quantities <4, and (2) an analog system which represents quantities comparatively but is limited by th...

“Friendship” with Males: A Female Counterstrategy to Infanticide in Chacma Baboons of the Okavango Delta

___–1 ___ 0 ___ +1 The fundamental conflict of reproductive interests between males and females, originally articulated by Trivers (1972) and Parker (1979), may have diverse evolutionary consequences at multiple levels: genetic, morphological, physiological , social, ecological, life historical (Arnqvist and Rowe 2005; Chapman 2006). This volume addresses one dramatic manifestation of this conf...

Characterisation of placental malaria in olive baboons (Papio anubis) infected with Plasmodium knowlesi H strain

Pregnant women have increased susceptibility to malaria infection. In these women, malaria parasites are frequently found sequestered in the placental intervillous spaces, a condition referred to as placental malaria (PM). Placental malaria threatens the health of the mother and the child’s life by causing still births and reduction in gestational age. An estimated 24 million pregnant women in ...