And what you see here is a graph where you see that the lower ranking the male baboon is, the higher is his cortisol level in the feces, but the alpha male, as you see, has just as high a level as the lowest-ranking males, and so you may think that being alpha male is nice and dandy and is wonderful, but it's actually a very stressful position, and we can demonstrate that physiologically.
Na wykresie widać zależność: im niższa pozycja samca w stadzie, tym wyższy poziom kortyzolu w kale. Jednak samiec alfa ma taki sam poziom kortyzolu, jak najniższe rangą samce. Wydaje się, że bycie samcem alfa to coś wspaniałego, jednak jest to bardzo stresująca pozycja z psychologicznego punktu widzenia.