Mark Wieczorek

If it’s not the lions, it’s lying around all day doing nothing.

“If you live in a baboon troop in the Serengeti, you only have to work three hours a day for your calories, and predators don’t mess with you much. What that means is you’ve got nine hours of free time every day to devote to generating psychological stress toward other animals in your troop,” he explained. “They’re just like us: They’re not getting done in by predators and famines; they’re getting done in by each other.”

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