A group of chacma baboons (IMAGE)

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

A group of chacma baboons

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A group of chacma baboons in the middle of a grooming session. On the left, the larger male has his fur cleaned by a smaller female with a baby. In this species, males are dominant over females.

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© Élise Huchard

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To be used for reporting on this research by Élise Huchard et al. (2025) only.

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