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Published online 4 February 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2008.552
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A (ba)boon for youngsters' growth
Fatherly attention makes baboon babies grow faster.
It's not just humans who benefit from having a father figure around; the longer a yellow baboon’s dad sticks around, the better it does, new research shows.
The discovery shows that there’s more to male baboon life than sex and fighting, says Jeanne Altmann of Princeton University in New Jersey.
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