Researchers at Swansea University have discovered that Bobon runs in lines, not for safety or strategy, but just to stay close to his friends.
Bobon is often traveling in structural line formations when he is known as ‘progress’ as he passes through his home. Previous studies provide contradictory explanations for this behavior. Some people suggested that the order was random, while others argued that Bobon took himself with a strategy, and was running to the center to reduce the risk of his attack with the weak.
Now, using high resolution GPS tracking, researchers at Swansea University have re -examined this behavior in a group of wild chalkma Boboons (Poppo Erosis) On the Cape Peninsula of South Africa. Their results, published in the journal Behavior environmentDiscovery that samples of the Babon movement are driven by a social bond rather than survival strategy.
The team analyzed 78 travel developments in 36 days and showed that the arrangement in which individual Bobons traveled was not random.
Researchers experienced four potential specifications for Bobon Development Order:
- Protection of weak (risk assumption)
- To compete for resources (speculation of competition)
- After leaders (speculation of group decision -making)
- Samples emerging from social relations (Social Spandle’s assumption)
After analyzing the data, researchers found that samples of Babuns movement were completely driven by their social relations.
Dr. Andrew King, Associate Professor of Swansei University, said: “Surprisingly, the permanent order we have seen about the Babons we have studied is not about to avoid danger when they keep ourselves in the middle of our social group, or we have a better access to water, or as we are in the middle of our social group.
“We studied in the Babon Group, more socially connected, advanced people usually run in the middle of the group, while lower-level Babuns often live in front or backward parts. During the movement of these groups-such as a familiar gold place, the group is not already on the way.
The concept of ‘Social Spandle’ has been introduced in this search. In buildings, the spondrills are trilateral places that emerge as products when the monks are kept together. In organisms, a sponderle refers to a trait that arises not because it was directly chosen, but as a side effect of something else. In this case, the permanent travel samples between Baboonz naturally naturally come out of their social affiliations, not as a strategy for safety or success.
The main author of this study and a PhD student at Swansea University, Marco Fell, said: “We know that strong social bonds are important for Babun. They are long -lived and more reproductive successfully. But in this context, they are not serving a specific purpose.
