Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The first evidence pointing to the unique daily problems faced by alpha male baboons arrived in 2011, when Gesquiere and ...

WASHINGTON - Life is tough for the top baboon. Oh sure, you're No. 1 so you get the best food and girl baboons. But there's also all that pressure to defend your status. Maybe, a new study suggests, ...

There's a downside to being a powerful alpha male -- at least if you're a baboon. Studies show that despite their high rank, the No. 1 males in baboon society are also some of the most stressed out, ...

If you’re a baboon, being in charge gives you a lot of advantages: you have better access to food, you get more action from the ladies, and your kids tend to grow faster and live longer. Low-rankers, ...

It’s stressful at the top, at least for male baboons, according to a new study that finds that alpha males — those at the pinnacle of the social hierarchy — are significantly more stressed out than a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Instead, I turned and was shocked to see Split Lip, the alpha male baboon from the troop that was frequenting Misty Cliffs, a ...

You know the type: Loud. Swaggering. Pushy. The alpha male clearly runs the show. Female alphas are often less conspicuous than their puffed up male counterparts, but holding the top spot still has ...

Top-ranking males generate surprisingly high levels of stress hormones, a sign that these primates pay a cost to be the boss, report evolutionary biologist Laurence Gesquiere of Princeton University ...

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY- A new study of wild baboons led by a Princeton University ecologist suggests that being at the very top of a social hierarchy may be more costly than previously thought. The ...

At last, good news for the beta male. From the wild to Wall Street, as everyone knows, the alpha male runs the show, enjoying power over other males and, as a field biologist might put it, the best ...