Question

1. Why did Dr. Sapolsky choose Baboons to study stress? 2. How does social standing affect stress? 3. What did we learn about stress from the Dutch famine? 4. What was suggested as an antidote to stress? … in other words – What was suggested as a means to neutralize or overcome the effects of stress? link (Stress, Portrait of a Killer - Full Documentary (2008) (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

Answer 1

• 1.Unhealthy baboons, Sapolsky found, similar to unhealthy humans, have elevated levels of stress hormones and their immune responses and reproductive system are compromised.
  
• They found that baboons have diseases that other social mammals generally don't have.He said,if you're a gazelle, you don't have a very complex emotional life, despite being a social species. But primates are just smart enough that they can think their bodies into working differently. It's not until you get to primates that you get things that look like depression."
• The baboons have served a good model for understanding human behavior.The reason baboons are such good models is, like humans, they don't have real stressors.
• Due to time limit,remaning questions can be asked as another question,they will be answered,thankyou for your cooperation