wrote:
> Hmm. Babboons:
> - Live in the desert.
> - Run very fast on four legs, slower on three
> - Are large and strong.
> - Hierarchial tribes with a dominant males and many smaller males
> trying to compete amongst themselves.
> - Given to fights in order to show their dominance over lesser
> males and constantly need to enforce this order.
> - The stronger ones have a better chance at finding a mate and
> getting first choice at food.
>
> Perhaps some sort of gladitorial gang-wrestling sport? Team based,
> but with a distinct element of "every baboon for himself".
I'm thinking of the original medieval progenitor of football, played
between villages (or in this case baboon tribes) attempting to carry
some object between geographically seperated "goals"
The alternative is "capture the flag" - which is pretty much the same
thing, only in reverse!