Female baboons with close father bonds tend to live longer lives, study finds

A team of biologists and wildlife specialists from the University of Notre Dame and Duke University, in the U.S., and Amboseli Baboon Research Project, in Kenya, has found evidence that female baboons who have relatively strong ties with their fathers while growing up tend to live longer lives. For their study, published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, the group tracked the lifespans of more than 200 wild female baboons living in Kenya.

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