Fw: CII HI - A Natural History of Peace

[Marei Kiele]

 This was loooong, Peggy, but really worth reading!
And yeah, I agree that it's a wonderful analogy regarding welcoming the stranger.

Thank you for sharing!

Marei


 "Peggy Holman" <mailto:peggy at opencirclecompany.com> schrieb:
> In a troop of baboons in which:
> 
> . Aggression was less
> > frequent, particularly against third parties. And rates of affiliative 
> > behaviors, such as males and females grooming each other or sitting 
> > together, soared. There were even instances, now and then, of adult males 
> > grooming each other -- a behavior nearly as unprecedented as baboons 
> > sprouting wings.
> 
> 
> See what "welcoming the stranger" can do?
> 
> In a typical savanna baboon
> > troop, newly transferred adolescent males spend years slowly working their 
> > way into the social fabric; they are extremely low ranking -- ignored by 
> > females and noted by adult males only as convenient targets for 
> > aggression. In Forest Troop, by contrast, new male transfers are inundated 
> > with female attention soon after their arrival. Resident females first 
> > present themselves sexually to new males an average of 18 days after the 
> > males arrive, and they first groom the new males an average of 20 days 
> > after they arrive (normal savanna baboons introduce such behaviors after 
> > 63 and 78 days, respectively). Furthermore, these welcoming gestures occur 
> > more frequently in Forest Troop during the early post-transfer period, and 
> > there is four times as much grooming of males by females in Forest Troop 
> > as elsewhere. From almost the moment they arrive, in other words, new 
> > males find out that in Forest Troop, things are done differently.
> 
> from rainy Seattle,
> Peggy

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