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<div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/299/baboon_audio.m4a' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='Are Baboons Democratic?' data-article-id='578'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='9917'>A team of scientists has found a surprise element to the social structure of baboons: democracy. </span> <span data-start-time='9917' data-end-time='14625'>The animals live in groups with a single male leader. </span> <span data-start-time='14625' data-end-time='21354'>But, apparently, obedience to the leader is not always the rule.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='21354' data-end-time='28750'>Margaret Crofoot is a primatologist at the University of California, Davis. </span> <span data-start-time='28750' data-end-time='37146'>She led the scientists in their study of wild baboons at the Mpala Research Center in Kenya.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='37146' data-end-time='43771'>The team placed GPS devices on 25 baboons. </span> <span data-start-time='43771' data-end-time='48708'>They recorded the animals’ movements for two weeks. </span> <span data-start-time='48708' data-end-time='55146'>The devices provided about 20 million points of data.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='55146' data-end-time='63021'>The scientists examined the data by measuring the distance between two baboons. </span> <span data-start-time='63021' data-end-time='70417'>How that distance changed provided a picture of how the group moved as a whole.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='70417' data-end-time='80417'>Ms. Crofoot says she was surprised that the baboons did not follow the group’s lead, or dominant, male. </span> <span data-start-time='80417' data-end-time='86271'>Her team found that the majority ruled the group’s movements. </span> <span data-start-time='86271' data-end-time='92438'>The animals followed the direction set by the most baboons. </span> <span data-start-time='92438' data-end-time='102417'>Ms. Crofoot says the results show that dominant individuals only direct what the group does some of the time. </span> <span data-start-time='102417' data-end-time='109688'>She says at other times the process is more egalitarian and democratic.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='109688' data-end-time='118438'>Individual baboons decide where to go by looking around to see where others are going. </span> <span data-start-time='118438' data-end-time='126063'>Looking to one’s neighbors when deciding where to go is not unusual for birds and fish. </span> <span data-start-time='126063' data-end-time='130000'>But it was not expected for baboons.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='130000' data-end-time='141833'>Scientist Crofoot says when the baboons could not compromise about a direction, they often had to stop and think about the issue. </span> <span data-start-time='141833' data-end-time='149042'>This meant losing time for eating, playing, socializing and other activities.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='149042' data-end-time='159667'>So, the urge to move with the crowd may be the greatest evolutionary invention in support of unity.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='159667' data-end-time='161542'>I’m Caty Weaver.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button 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data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/299/a_set_of_data.m4a'><span>a set of data</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/299/more_dominant.m4a'><span>more dominant</span></div></div></div><div class='multiple_choice_question question-container' data-question-id=3255 data-hint-location='0' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/299/what_type_of_social_structure_did_scientists_find_among_baboons.m4a'>What type of social structure did scientists find among baboons?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='democracy'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/299/democracy.m4a'><span>democracy</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/299/dictatorship.m4a'><span>dictatorship</span></div><div class='choice' 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