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Mass Collaring Revealed A Sea Of Data
- Meg Crofoot collared ~25 baboons and recorded one GPS point per second for a month, yielding ~20 million GPS points and massive accelerometry data.
- The collars let the team visualize every individual's movements simultaneously and reveal hidden group patterns.
No Single Alpha Drives Daily Movement
- The team expected a single dominant alpha to lead the troop, but the movement patterns did not match that model.
- Instead of a single leader, the troop formed amoeba-like shapes with multiple initiators and shifting influence.
Tree Perch Signaled An Intent To Lead
- Damien observed a baboon walk 100 meters from the group, sit, then climb a dead tree to be more visible before rejoining after ten minutes.
- That behavior signaled intentional signaling: an individual trying to recruit followers by making itself conspicuous.