[upbeat music] - Hi, Sandy.

Good.

Here's your bite Can I see your hand?

Good.

- Your hand?

Good, good, good.

Good job.

Good.

- Oh, that's good.

- Shannon, Kamisha, what were you doing with the baboons?

- We were doing some medical training for them, so it's really important for us to keep their body part presentations up to date and check their teeth, practice voluntary hand injection with them for all their vaccines and things like that.

Yeah.

- So what's the exercise?

What do you have them to do and what do they do in return?

- So we will ask them for their behaviors, like Kamisha just mentioned, and once they complete that behavior in the appropriate way, we will reinforce them with some fruit to either some apple or banana.

- What are some of the presentations?

Like, I saw you put your hand up, and then Babu put his hand on your hand.

- Yeah.

It's kind of like they mirror our hands.

So we ask for hand, they put, like you said, their hand up.

We do foot, we have different cues, so different things that we, you know, for foot, it's this, for hand it's just hand.

For butt, it's this.

- So how long does it take to teach them these behaviors, Shannon?

- So it kind of depends on the individual.

Some animals are really, really fast learners, whereas other ones take a little bit of time, but typically in between a couple of days to a couple of weeks.

- What kind of baboon is this, and what's unique about this species?

- So these are hamadryas baboons, and what is very unique about them is their social system.

Most primates live with just one male and several females.

However, hamadryas baboons are unique because they can live with multiple males and multiple females at one time relatively peacefully.

And they're able to do that because each male has a harem of females, which is also called a one-male unit.

And the other males will respect the bonds that male has with all of his females.

- Well, they're a lot of fun to watch, and it's good to know that they have the open canopy also to explore.

Thank you so much.

This was a lot of fun.

- Yeah, no problem.

- Thank you.