Do primates ever apologize and change their ways?
Thats very interesting. Every now and then you get a guy who goes through some sort of utterly mysterious epiphany and transformation. Once in a decade, you get a guy whos high-ranking because hes just an SOB who has to remind everybody of his high rank about eleventy times a day. And then something happens; he changes. He walks away from it, and he typically lives a long and uninjured life, doing affiliative stuff. But this is literally once a decade at best. You get a bunch of baboonologists together, and everybody knew a guy like this, and we talk about how much we loved him and how amazing he was. We wonder where this change came from. Did you have a guy like that? Yeah a guy named Nat, Nathaniel, whom I kind of adored. I have his picture on my wall. He was at the top of the hierarchy. He was not so much a brutal alpha male, but he was a big, imposing, muscular guy who just scared the willies out of everybody. And then one day, he just picked up and walked away from it and spent th
