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...eleven games, the squad lost to every team from the top-ranked Duke Blue Devils to the lowly Baboon Beavers of Division...
...BABOON RESERVE, Bronx Zoo. Nubian ibex, rock hyraxes, assorted waterfowl and two troops of threatened gelada baboons inhabit this new 5.5-acre exhibit, which re-creates the high-altitude grasslands of Ethiopia's Amhara Plateau...
...concentrated on the physical sciences, such as the study of volcanoes and eclipses, but as public interest grew in things natural, the organization acquired a strong environmental flavor. This year more than 3,000 EarthCorps volunteers will head off on 111 different projects around the world, taking molds of baboon teeth in Ethiopia, protecting endangered sea- turtle eggs in the Caribbean and monitoring volcanoes...
Activists Protest Baboon Research...
...Baboon life, says Strum, is an endless series of negotiations. The drama of their lives revolves not around sex or male intimidation but around alliances, around friendships. Baboons have a Japanese complexity of deferences and dominances. They live, it seems to a newcomer, in a constant state of distracted tension, as if caught in an elastic web of attractions and repulsions, a web constantly in motion, in adjustment of distances. The visitor studies their hands, which are so human, so adept and articulate that they could be trained for neurosurgery if good hands were all that a neurosurgeon needed...