Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Male Baboons Aren’t All About Big Butts, Study Finds 




While its scientific fact that baboons like big butts (and they cannot lie), a new study appearing in the advanced online edition of the journal Animal Behavior indicates that a sizable posterior is not quite as important to the Old World monkeys as previously believed.

While biologists have long believed that baboon males viewed females with larger rear ends as better potential mothers, a new study of the primates indicates that female fertility may actually play a greater role when it comes to choosing a potential mate, the authors report.

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