just love this because there's a chimp footprint in it. There's a baboon . Bush pig. And up at the top, just out of the frame, is a buffalo print. They also clog the road a little bit if there's a herd of buffalo. You stop and reroute. Your GPS says, "Rerouting."
They also clog the road a little bit if there's a herd of buffalo. You stop and reroute. Your GPS says, "Rerouting." "There's a baboon trail a hundred yards behind you and take a left." And we're also an all-weather crew. A lot of our work, it's not rain-dependent. And so, and you'll see in the sequence, actually we got some really, really amazing rain dances and rain displays as they were, as one community was being aggressive towards another.
and which is bad? perhaps rather like baboons , in which they were surrounded by a group, a clan, who would have been mostly cousins, mostly relatives.
Previously the main dividing lines between people and their beliefs concerned questions like, Let's say you are a baboon .
Previously the main dividing lines between people and their beliefs concerned questions like, How do I do it as a baboon ?
And you just say, wait, objective reality will prove me right. the eyes of the biggest baboon .
realize is when you're in position of authority, people are watching you perhaps more closely than you might realize. And just as a quick aside, this happens in apes, too. There's sort of some cool studies about baboon troops. It turns out that the average member of baboon troop looks up at the boss; the alpha male every 20 or 30 seconds. So, I'm wondering, so you've got these problems in then also, to make things worse, and one reason I call this ,this the toxic tandem, is there's a lot of evidence that when you put people in
Yeah. And part of that is funders need to be better. We need to be uh more willing to invest in things like because you you can hear the baboons echoing and you're watching your feet for snakes and you go up and you say,
And so thanks to their data, thanks to the fact that they had data at second-by-second resolution, you can zoom in to particular moments. And the moment we chose was the baboons running across this area of crop land. Here, they didn't like it.
And we could then see that exact moment. We could see that some baboons run off one way. Some run another way.
we pick up that easily differentiate between human and non-human. The only thing it could have been was a baboon . It was the right size for a fossil baboon , but it didn't have the right kind of anatomy on the backside of it.
The only thing it could have been was a baboon . It was the right size for a fossil baboon , but it didn't have the right kind of anatomy on the backside of it. It had our kind of anatomy.
Plus he once wrote a column about how he wanted to shoot a baboon on safari. He'd been on safari and he shot a baboon , because like all of us, he wondered what it would be like to shoot a person. Classic psychopath. So I met AA Gill, actually, quite recently at a journalist award ceremony in London.
That gives a nice kind of overall impression of their behavior. But what the researchers were really interested in is how baboons make decisions on where they decide to go. And so thanks to their data, thanks to the fact that they had data at second-by-second resolution, you can zoom in to particular moments.
They got harassed by local herders and farmers. So it was a big thing for the baboons to run across. They didn't want to hang around.
And it controlled for the effects of gravity. And we'd come up with rhymes-- so 17 baboons in the whatever it was.
He gave me very, very bad reviews on my television documentaries over many years, which is classic psychopathic. Plus he once wrote a column about how he wanted to shoot a baboon on safari. He'd been on safari and he shot a baboon , because like all of us, he wondered what it would be like to shoot a person.
Everything is exactly the same, whether it's commuting cyclists in London in this map, or some commuting baboons in this map. And this is a study where they had GPS loggers on a troop of baboons , or most of a troop of baboons , and they were sampling them every second.
But it's a fairly democratic decision-making process that the research had a hunch about, but were only really able to prove through a large-scale data-mining exercise to create these rules about, when one baboon goes one way, how do the others follow?
The Earth, because it's in this creative zone, is able to evoke the creative dynamics that give birth to this. And she looked, and it was a young male baboon .
And you just say, wait, objective reality will prove me right. Go to the zoo with a pointed stick, Climb into the baboon enclosure, and poke out
And the first thing he said was, I would never sue another journalist. So I said, that thing that you wrote about wanting to kill a baboon on safari, because like all of us, you wondered what it would be like shoot a person, I said it's not all of us.
not by an alpha male or female. And you can see how at different moments in time, the baboons either decide to compromise where they want to go or they choose to follow one or the other.
The Earth, because it's in this creative zone, is able to evoke the creative dynamics that give birth to this. And it was, just to give you a close-up on the fingernail, the young male baboon had placed its finger right next to hers
Previously the main dividing lines between people and their beliefs concerned questions like, a certain probability. Now the result does not show up as a number, like in some futuristic science fiction movie that the baboon or the person
it's amazing the expressions you get. Because this obviously-- obviously, in quotes-- is a gelada, cousin to a baboon , who's inside, who's
So it's very different. But I consider the first part of our relationship is faith. It's it's not just it's founded on faith. I have to or else how do I have a relationship with people who raped, molested, killed, excluded, made us landless callers cafa baboons , monkeys who still believe some of them that they are racially superior to me and I'm inferior. I'm not smart. So how do I do that if I cannot look at the person and know
And for those-- if any of you have worked with spatial data, coordinates, that kind of thing, you know the great advantage is the formats. Everything is exactly the same, whether it's commuting cyclists in London in this map, or some commuting baboons in this map. And this is a study where they had GPS loggers on a troop of baboons , or most of a troop of baboons , and they were
The Earth, because it's in this creative zone, is able to evoke the creative dynamics that give birth to this. So a friend of mine, Dr. Barbara Smuts at the University of Michigan, studies baboons .
And so not surprisingly, there is every week a paper coming out now showing that the microbiome's associated with a different disease. So sort of back to my original research program of humans versus chimps, we're looking in chimps and gorillas and baboons to see how they fit in.
She is known in Ethiopia by her own name. And we saw lots of diversifications in animals that we think of traditionally as savanna animals, like baboons speciated into a number of species.
She is known in Ethiopia by her own name. And they specialized. And as the climate got drier and drier in East Africa, and as the antelopes and gazelles and savanna baboons