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Murder in the Troop (2009) As you watch this film, answer the questions listed below. Several questions on the exam will be based on these questions. 1) In what country do the baboons in this film live along the Zambezi River? 2) What proportion of newborn baboons in this population survive their first year? 3) Do the home ranges of different baboon troops overlap with one another? 4) What do male baboons herd females in their group away from other groups? 5) What happens to the former leader male of the troop once he is deposed by the new male? 6) Who does most of the mating with the females in the troop after the new male takes over? 7) Friendship and family ties are reassuring during the tense times following takeovers. How do baboons comfort each other in these circumstances? 8) Grooming causes the release of which hormones? 9) Why do new leader males often kill the existing young infants (i.e. those still nursing) in a troop that they take over? 10) What does the mother of the killed twin do with it in the aftermath of its murder? 11) Where do the baboons drink water and what danger lurks there? 12) How do baboons behave at waterholes? 13) Why do juvenile baboons (i.e. no longer suckling) play without fear of the new leader male? 14) What do the baboons do when they see a python? Why are they not more afraid of it? 15) Why does the other troop of baboons leave the fig tree they were occupying when the Zambezi troop shows up? 16) What is so special about figs? 17) What other animals feed on the figs as well? 18) How do cheek pouches come in handy when eating figs? 19) What time of day is the troop most vulnerable to predators?

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20) Where do baboons sleep to combat this nocturnal vulnerability? 21) What creature are they still vulnerable to at night even though they sleep in trees? 22) What do they do when the leopard arrives at their sleeping tree? 23) How does ‘the outsider’ gain entry into the troop? 24) What food parts do the baboons eat from the white Acacia tree? 25) How does the low ranking female succeed in threatening a higher-ranking female at a feeding tree? 26) Elephant males have a novel way to get seeds from an Acacia tree – what is it? 27) How does the leader male of the baboon troop react when he sees an impala fawn nearby? 28) Whom does he allow to takeover the impala carcass when he has had his fill? 29) What does ‘the outsider’ do when ‘the king’ chases him? 30) What happens to ‘the outsider’ after he returns the infant he ‘kidnapped’ to its mother? 31) Why do the baboons risk crossing the crocodile-infested river to the island on the other side? 32) What happens to the twins’ father when the troop re-crosses the river to get back to the floodplain? 33) What is the large fruit ‘the outsider’ and his female friend eat during the dry season? (We have a tree of this type in the Fullerton Arboretum!) 34) By November and December, some of the females have become little more than ‘skin and bones’. Why? 35) What event brings an end to the long drought? 36) What changes occur in the plant community once the rainy season arrives? 37) Whom does the surviving twin’s mother mate with once the twin quits suckling and the mother returns to estrus? 38) Why is the twin no longer in danger of being killed?

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