Data and supplementary material for: Wild baboons groom objects with fur: implications for infant corpse carrying in primates?

Included are the data, R code and a supplementary video. 

Data: mammalian_cues_toy_data_complete.csv

id: a unique identifier for the individual baboon

sex: baboon sex, F (female), M (male)

rank: relative rank of the baboon from 0 (lowest ranking) to 1 (highest ranking)

age_class2: age class of the baboon (adult = adult, juv = juvenile)

obj_type: the object that was presented (7 levels)

cues: the mammalian cues present in the object type (4 levels)

handling_s: the number of seconds the object was handled by the particular baboon for the particular presentation

groom_s: the number of seconds the object was groomed by the particular baboon for the particular presentation

break_s: the number of seconds the object was aggressed by the particular baboon for the particular presentation

R code: Reiderman et al_toy_thanatology analyses.txt

R script to replicate the analyses.

Video: Supp Movie_Baboon grooms blue ball.MP4

Video of baboon grooming the ‘furball’ object: The baboon is seen moving with their hands the blue synthetic fur of the ball in a manner reminiscent of grooming, and puts their mouth to the surface of the ball to ‘clean’ the object, as is seen during grooming of conspecifics.