
Fighting faces
Living high up in the Ethiopian Highlands, gelada baboons have to survive on a meagre diet of grass. To extract enough energy from such a poor diet, they have to spend much of their time grazing. Consequently, energy isn't wasted on trivial disputes so when tensions rise between dominant males, face-pulling is the preferred method of suppression.
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