Baboon females, Amboseli basin, Kenya (IMAGE)

Duke University

Baboon females, Amboseli basin, Kenya

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Born to rule and rarely challenged, alpha female baboons have lower levels of stress hormones than their dominant male counterparts or other females.

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Photo by Matthew Zipple, Duke University.

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