WASHINGTON - Life is tough for the top baboon. Oh sure, you're No. 1 so you get the best food and girl baboons. But there's also all that pressure to defend your status. Maybe, a new study suggests, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The first evidence pointing to the unique daily problems faced by alpha male baboons arrived in 2011, when Gesquiere and ...

There's a downside to being a powerful alpha male -- at least if you're a baboon. Studies show that despite their high rank, the No. 1 males in baboon society are also some of the most stressed out, ...

It’s stressful at the top, at least for male baboons, according to a new study that finds that alpha males — those at the pinnacle of the social hierarchy — are significantly more stressed out than a ...

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY- A new study of wild baboons led by a Princeton University ecologist suggests that being at the very top of a social hierarchy may be more costly than previously thought. The ...

The Cape Peninsula Baboon Management Joint Task Team (CPBMJTT) has given a dominant alpha male baboon a lifeline, saying that plans to put him down were off the table. This comes after conservation ...

You know the type: Loud. Swaggering. Pushy. The alpha male clearly runs the show. Female alphas are often less conspicuous than their puffed up male counterparts, but holding the top spot still has ...

At last, good news for the beta male. From the wild to Wall Street, as everyone knows, the alpha male runs the show, enjoying power over other males and, as a field biologist might put it, the best ...

Sometimes it pays to give underlings a treat. Dominant male chacma baboons allow lower-ranking males to mate with their females as a way to protect the dominant male’s own offspring in their absence.