Helpful baboon dads boost offsprings' success

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Uploaded by on Feb 4, 2008

Read more: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13271-helpful-baboon-dads-boost-offspri...

Yellow baboon young who get help from their dads enjoy a reproductive head-start by maturing quicker

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  • I see Your point...You mean that mothers sleeping around makes it difficult for the fathers to distinguish their own children...

    ;-)

  • They should have baboons on Ricky Lake and Jerry Springer instead of blood tests! AND instead of their other guests! At least the level of intelligence on the show would go up, and probably the level of civilised conduct.

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  • nigger should learn from these

  • Ohhh my fucking GOD THAT WAS THE MOST ENOYING VOICE EVER!!!

  • i like the baby baboon on the big baboon!!! its crazy town!

  • these fuckin baboons ...are so PROMISCUOUS!!! WHORE BAGS!!! SHEEEIT

  • It does, actually - it's technically called 'paternal uncertainty'. Benefit for females is that the males don't know whose child it is, and so MULTIPLE males MAY support the woman and child... The risk is, of course, that they may also be rejected by the male(s) entirely.

  • They are also good eating.  They taste like chicken when BBQ'd

  • Females don't sleep around - haha!

  • Did anyone else notice the picture of a pack of marlboro cigs during the Virtual reality thing?

  • Sluts raise bad kids. Who DIDN'T know this?

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