For more than thirty years I spent my summers studying savanna baboons in the Serengeti ecosystem in East Africa. I love baboons, but I must admit that they’re often violent and abusive, so that the weak suffer at the canines of the strong. Okay, some detachment—they’re a highly sexually dimorphic tournament species with extensive escalated aggression and a strong propensity toward frustration displacement—i.e., they can be intensely shitty to one another.
