Social Bonds of the Baboon Kind (IMAGE)

Duke University

Social Bonds of the Baboon Kind

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Humans may send cards or spend time together over beers or coffee, but one way that baboons make friends and cement social bonds is by grooming -- an activity that involves picking dirt and parasites and dead skin out of each other's fur. This adult male is grooming an adult female near Amboseli National Park in Kenya.

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Photo by Noah Snyder-Mackler, Duke University.

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