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Dr Robert Sapolsky and the Keekorok Baboon Troop

Christian G
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Neurobiologist Robert Sapolsky travels to the Masai Mara reserve in Kenya every year to continue an ongoing research project he's been working on for about 30 years now. This is the unique story of his Keekorok baboon troop, and how after the alpha males died from tuberculosis, the troop very quickly transformed into a very peaceful troop, and since then, a peaceful approach has become a cultural norm for them. A norm that has continued for 20 years now, and that also transforms other aberrant baboons from other troops that may wander into the troop. ...more
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Dr Robert Sapolsky and the Keekorok Baboon Troop
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2013Jan 18
Neurobiologist Robert Sapolsky travels to the Masai Mara reserve in Kenya every year to continue an ongoing research project he's been working on for about 30 years now. This is the unique story of his Keekorok baboon troop, and how after the alpha males died from tuberculosis, the troop very quickly transformed into a very peaceful troop, and since then, a peaceful approach has become a cultural norm for them. A norm that has continued for 20 years now, and that also transforms other aberrant baboons from other troops that may wander into the troop.

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Christian G

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