Alpha Males Research Paper

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Name | Rank/ Gender | Joined/ left/ born | Solomon | Alpha Male before Uriah | Joined -> left | Leah | Alpha Female | Born | Devorah | Became Alpha Female | Born daughter of Leah | Aaron | Male 2nd below Solomon | Joined -> left | Isaac | Male | | Naomi | Female (mid ranked) | Born | Rachel | Female | Born daughter of Naomi | Nat (Nathaniel) | Male | Joined | ATM (Adam) | Male | Joined | SML (Samuel) | Male | Joined | Nebuchanezzar | Male | Joined | Bathsheeba | Female | Born/Killed by Nebuchanezzar | Ruth | Female (low ranking) | Born | Joshua | Male (low rank) | Joined | Obadiah | Male | Born son of Ruth and Joshua | Benjamin | Male | Joined | David | Male | Joined | Daniel | Male | Joined |…show more content…
There is no complex system of what ranks females. Females are ones that very rarely leave and join a new troop, where they are born is where they stay. Since females stay in their troop their rank is inherited from their mothers. When the maternal lineage adds another generation that daughter is ranked below the mother. In Sapolsky’s troop Leah is the mother of Devorah and grandmother to Devorah’s daughter. Leah is the alpha female and Devorah, being her daughter, is ranked just below her. Being in what is considered the alpha female lineage you are more likely to live past childhood and get plenty of nourishment. Having the privilege of being born into this lineage, a baboon grows up with more confidence and the advantage of quicker development. This is seen by Devorah and Leah. The two of them would occasionally do an action only done by males to other males, when they highly trusted each other. Devorah pulled on Nebuchanezzar’s penis as she walked by him. Her action was odd and unusual to Nebuchanezzar who had to do a double take to make sure she was not a male. Devorah presented a lot of confidence in her place in the hierarchy for a…show more content…
There is a steady pattern in the male hierarchy. Usually when males interact in fighting it is always with the same males going after each other. For example mid-ranking baboons like number 7 will always be in fights with the number 6 and number 8, or number 17 with 18 and 19. Specifically when Solomon gave his alpha male position up he was defeated all the way down to the solid middle becoming number 9 in the hierarchy. Every male defeated him, moving themselves up in the

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