Could it be culture? An inter-troop comparison of baboon behaviour in Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique

Muschinski, Jana; Lewis-Bevan, Lynn; Biro, Dora; Carvalho, Susana

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Baboons in Gorongosa National Park have been observed to strip bark off Acacia robusta trees, chew the fibres underneath the bark, and spit out wadges. These actions leave identifiable marks on trees. Work conducted during 2018 indicates regional variation exists within the park1. Some trees exhibit stripping on the trunk, likely by elephants, in addition to (or instead of) on upper branches. We resurveyed all sites for bark stripping in 2019 and tested several ecological hypotheses following the method of exclusion2, 3.