Provider: Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic TY - JOUR JO - Anthropologie (Brno) TI - Study of Social Structure in Free-Ranging Hamadryas Baboons AU - Chalyan VG AU - Meishvili NV Y1 - 2003 VL - 41 IS - 1-2 PB - Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic SN - 0323-1119 SP - 25 EP - 30 KW - Hamadryas baboons KW - Demography KW - Social structure N2 - N2 - The description of the dynamics of social structure of the group of hamadryas baboons released to a subtropical forest in the vicinity of Sukhumi, Abkhazia (Georgia) is presented. During about 2 decades of observational period drastic changes in age/sex and social structure of the group took place. They have been expressed as a transformation of preliminary artificially formed group into a troop with characteristics typical for hamadryas baboons of Ethiopia. The thesis of succession of levels of organization in hamadryas baboons as a main mechanism of their development has been discussed. ER -