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<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>This was loooong, Peggy, but really worth
reading!<BR>And yeah, I agree that it's a wonderful analogy
regarding welcoming the stranger.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thank you for sharing!</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Marei</FONT></P>
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<P> "Peggy Holman" <<A href="mailto:peggy@opencirclecompany.com>" >mailto:peggy@opencirclecompany.com></A> schrieb:<BR>> In a troop of baboons in which:<BR>> <BR>> . Aggression was less<BR>> > frequent, particularly against third parties. And rates of affiliative <BR>> > behaviors, such as males and females grooming each other or sitting <BR>> > together, soared. There were even instances, now and then, of adult males <BR>> > grooming each other -- a behavior nearly as unprecedented as baboons <BR>> > sprouting wings.<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> See what "welcoming the stranger" can do?<BR>> <BR>> In a typical savanna baboon<BR>> > troop, newly transferred adolescent males spend years slowly working their <BR>> > way into the social fabric; they are extremely low ranking -- ignored by <BR>> > females and noted by adult males only as convenient targets for <BR>> > aggression. In Forest Troop, by contrast, new male transfers are inundated <BR>> > with female attention soon after their arrival. Resident females first <BR>> > present themselves sexually to new males an average of 18 days after the <BR>> > males arrive, and they first groom the new males an average of 20 days <BR>> > after they arrive (normal savanna baboons introduce such behaviors after <BR>> > 63 and 78 days, respectively). Furthermore, these welcoming gestures occur <BR>> > more frequently in Forest Troop during the early post-transfer period, and <BR>> > there is four times as much grooming of males by females in Forest Troop <BR>> > as elsewhere. From almost the moment they arrive, in other words, new <BR>> > males find out that in Forest Troop, things are done differently.<BR>> <BR>> from rainy Seattle,<BR>> Peggy<BR></P></BODY></HTML>
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