2016年10月11日 · A baby baboon is called an infant and is helpless at birth. The eyes are open however, and the infant is well furred. The newborn baboon also has the typical young primates ingrained gripping reflex, and is able to hold itself against its mothers belly with tightly grasping hands and feet almost immediately after birth.

An infant is about two pounds at birth, about 7% of its mothers’ size. Although the newborn baboon infant is not able to run about on its own, it is born with a very strong gripping ability. This strong grip enables the infant to help its mother carry …

Infant baboons do not readily leave their mothers during the first weeks of life and will cling to them even when the mothers have been immobilised by means of darts containing tranquillisers. The infant can then be removed from the mother and held in captivity. Our main difficulty was to lure mothers within shooting range.

2016年11月1日 · For an infant baboon, surviving the first year of life requires learning to identify and successfully consume more than 250 types of food, avoiding fatal disease and predation, and perhaps most importantly identifying and avoiding dangers from other baboons both inside and outside their social group.

Behavioral staff in the SPF baboon colony observed mother-infant interactions closely beginning on the day of the infant’s birth. Basic evaluation criteria were used to score mothering behavior on a 5-point scale: ‘excellent,’ ‘fair,’ ‘poor,’ ‘bad,’ or ‘absent’ ( Table 1 ).

The infant baboon thrives on commercial human infant formulas and adapts readily to a peer social environment or can be raised in isolation by an animal handler. Following a few weeks of hand-feeding, infant baboons will self-feed until they …

2003年11月14日 · We present 16 years of behavioral data from a well-studied population of wild baboons, which demonstrate that sociality of adult females is positively associated with infant survival, an important component of variation in female lifetime fitness.

The infant baboon (Papio cynocephalus) has proven to be a useful biomedical research model and has been used in a variety of studies. These areas of investigation include nutrition, infectious diseases, toxicology of infant formula preservatives, and …

“This book, which looks at motherhood and infancy in baboons, is a classic for those interested in primate infant development, maternal behaviour, mother-infant relationships and social systems.”

1975年12月20日 · The feeding, housing and care of infant baboons (Papio ursinus) are discussed. At the time of capture all the baboons were aged less than 5 weeks, and problems such as soft stools, diarrhoea and a staphylococcal dermatitis that occurred during their 5 weeks adaptation to conditions in the animal hou …