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Comment author: smk 22 January 2012 12:27:13PM 5 points [-]

I thought there were violent baboons added to the group?

Only one of the males now in the troupe had been through the event. All the rest were new, and hadn't been raised in the tribe. The new males had come from the violent, dog-eat-dog world of normal baboon-land.

Comment author: [deleted] 22 January 2012 03:22:51PM 1 point [-]

How the hell did anyone reading this subthread (including me) miss that?

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 10 February 2012 04:50:59PM 1 point [-]

Possibly because the concept of a violent male disrupting a peaceful group is a violent adult male, perhaps even a violent alpha, while the violent males actually coming in are relatively young.

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