The Sweet Spot: New Study Shows Optimal Group Size For Baboons
8th February 2016
And it’s really, really important to know that.
A new study on the Amboseli baboons of East Africa shows that there is a “sweet spot,” or optimal group size, that is largely a factor of competition for resources and the need for protection from predators.
And that’s just so totally counter-intuitive.
(Hey, tenure doesn’t grow on trees, you know.)
No indication of who paid for all of this, but I suspect that taxpayers footed a large part of the bill.