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	Baboon
		The Hamadryas baboon was a sacred animal to the ancient Egyptians as the attendant of Thoth.
		Baboons are for the most part large terrestrial monkeys with short or medium-sized tails, and long naked dog-like muzzles[?], in the truncated extremity of which are pierced the nostrils.
		The anubis baboons[?], as shown by the frescoes, were tamed by the ancient Egyptians and trained to pluck sycamore-figs[?] from the trees.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ba/Baboon.html (487 words)

	Chacma Baboon -Papio ursinus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The chacma baboon is found in the countries of Angola, Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
		Baboons are the savanna's version of the monkey, and are the largest member of the monkey family.
		Baboons are duirnal and are always on the move so they don't strip an environment of it vegetation.
	www.blueplanetbiomes.org /chacma_baboon.htm (566 words)

	the Living Africa: wildlife - primates - savanna baboon
		The savanna baboon is strictly a diurnal mammal.
		Baboons are unique because members of a troop will have a fairly similar schedule, and basically stay into contact with each other throughout the day.
		Baboon troops can be as small as 8 and as large as 200 animals, however a typical troop size is generally 30 to 40 members.
	library.thinkquest.org /16645/wildlife/savanna_baboon.shtml (544 words)

	Chacma Baboons (Papio ursinus)
		The body mass of an adult male chacma baboon is between 26 to 31 kilograms, and the female has an average body mass of around 15 kilograms.
		The chacma baboon is a frugivorous species, but leaves also constitute a major part of the diet.
		This call is emitted by all chacma baboons except adult males, and functions as an alarm signal especially to a sudden disturbance (Estes, 1991).
	members.tripod.com /uakari/papio_ursinus.html (1422 words)

	Chacma Baboon \| Animal \| Africa...
		The Chacma Baboon is a large primate with a dog-like face and large, prominent canines.
		Chacma baboons are preyed upon by Leopard and Cheetah.
		The Chacma baboon is replaced in the north by its close relative, the yellow baboon.
	www.krugerpark.co.za /africa_chacma_baboon.html (258 words)

	Primates of Botswana - chacma baboon, vervet monkey, lesser bushbaby
		Botswana's three primates are the chacma baboon, the vervet monkey and the lesser bushbaby.
		Baboons are very social and live in troops of 30-40 members, sometimes many more, and they have a highly developed and complex social structure.
		Baboons are a diurnal species and spend their nights in one of several sleeping spots, but always out of danger, usually high up in tall trees.
	www.african-safari-botswana.com /primates.htm (1493 words)

	Savanna Baboon
		Color: brindled, olive brown (olive baboon), yellowbrown (yellow baboon), reddish brown (Guinea baboon), or greenish brown with dark lower limbs (chacma baboon); nose, lips, ears, hands, and feet fl; callosities, rump, and scrotum colored like face, shiny and often with purplish tinge in adults (pink in Guinea baboon).
		Perhaps most useful for understanding what goes on in a baboon troop is the knowledge that, internally, baboons are competing to attain and maintain dominance-females of different matrilines as well as males-and that externally, the troop has to compete with other troops for the same resources while defending itself against predators.
		Baboon troops are as small as 8 and as large as 200 animals, but typically include 30 to 40 members, half of them immature.
	www.nature-wildlife.com /babtxt.htm (1934 words)

	BBC - Science & Nature - Wildfacts - Chacma baboon
		In 1986, a troop of chacma baboons was found living in the heart of the Namib desert - the most arid environment known to be inhabited by a non-human primate (the annual rainfall is only 27mm).
		Chacma baboons can live for over 45 years.
		Chacma baboons are at lower risk of extinction.
	www.bbc.co.uk /nature/wildfacts/factfiles/230.shtml (221 words)

	Animal Planet :: Corwin's Carnival of Creatures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Chacma baboons mainly eat fruit, though leaves make up a big part of their diet.
		Chacma baboons forage by shuffling along the ground as they root for grasses and other food.
		Chacma baboons move along the ground on all fours.
	animal.discovery.com /fansites/jeffcorwin/carnival/primate/chacmababoon.html (454 words)

	Chacma Baboon {Papio ursinus} South Africa Wildlife
		Chacma Baboon {Papio ursinus} - The Chacma Baboons are the largest of the baboons.
		Chacma Baboons are the largest of the baboons.
		Chacma Baboons are diurnal and spend most of their time on the ground.
	www.sa-venues.com /wildlife/wildlife_chacma_baboon.htm (281 words)

	Savanna Baboon
		Hamadryas and gelada baboons are still more terrestrial and subsistent on grasses, but replaced by savanna baboon everywhere they formerly ranged except for most arid parts of northease Africa (hamadrayas), and cold montane grasslands of the Ethiopian Highlands.
		Although estrous females tend to be sexually receptive to dominant males, especially macho male immigrants, those that associate with females regularly at other times enjoy privileged status It turns out that each female has I to 3 favorite males she roosts with at night, socialgrooms with, and stays near while foraging.
		Fear paralysis a baboon cornered during a chase (e.g., large juvenilemale run down by adult male), crouches or lies flat, rigid with fear, meanwhile grimacing and churring.
	sailfish.exis.net /~spook/babtxt.html (1920 words)

	Wildlife Africa- Chacma Baboon, Behavior, Habits, Wildlife, African
		Baboons leave in troops of up to 40 or 50 individuals, congregating at nigh in a chosen tree or cliff, where they sleep, and from which they descend in the morning to look for food.
		Baboons are always on the alert, very often associating with other animals, like Impala.
		Baboons are omnivorous, feeding on fruit, roots, leaves, grass, flowers, insects, lizards, birds and their eggs.
	www.wildlifeafrica.co.za /baboonbehavior.html (254 words)

	Chacma baboon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Chacma Baboon is a large primate with a dog-like face and large, prominent canines, these features give it a more aggressive appearance than other primates.
		The chacma baboon lives in family groups of up to 150 individual, these troops have no single dominant male.
		Baboons are notorious for becoming a pest around humans where they often disturb rubbish bins and will tear open tents in their search for free food.
	www.namibian.org /travel/wildlife/baboon.html (224 words)

	The Chacma Baboons of Kommetjie
		Unfortunately because of lack of space left for them on the mountainside, where they used to be at peace, the future of the Chacma Baboons hangs in the balance.
		Njelo is one of the big male baboons of the troop, and the monitors are a few wonderful people who track the baboons all day, to make sure they stay out of the village where they are in danger of being shot at by irate humans.
		Baboon Matters has now started taking people up to walk with the baboons in their natural environment.
	animaltalk.org.uk /baboons.html (662 words)

	Baboon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In modern scientific use, only members of the genus Papio are called baboons, but previously the closely related Gelada (genus Theropithecus) and two species of Mandrill and Drill (genus Mandrillus) were grouped in the same genus, and these monkeys are still often referred to as baboons in everyday speech.
		Baboons in captivity have been known to live up to 45 years, while in the wild their life expectancy is about 30 years.
		In baboons males leave their birth group, usually before they reach sexual maturity, whereas females are 'philopatric' and stay in the same group their whole life.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Baboon (1351 words)

	Baboon Information
		In modern scientific use, only members of the genus Papio are called baboons, but previously the closely related mandrills and geladas (now classified in genera Mandrillus and Theropithecus) were grouped in the same genus, and these monkeys are still often referred to as baboons in everyday speech.
		All baboons have long dog-like muzzles (cynocephalus = dog-head), close-set eyes, heavy powerful jaws, thick fur except on their muzzle, short tail and often brightly coloured ischial callosities.
		They are ursinus (Chacma baboon, found in southern Africa), papio (Guinea or Western baboon, found in Senegal, The Gambia, Guinea), hamadryas (Hamadryas baboon, found in north-east Africa and into south-western Arabia), anubis (Olive baboon, found in central African savanna) and cynocephalus (Yellow baboon, found in Angola, Zambia, Malawi, Tanzania, Kenya, Somalia).
	www.junglewalk.com /info/Baboon-information.htm (695 words)

	essays research papers - Chacma Baboon
		The chacma baboon is also a Mammal for the class.
		The chacma baboon also has very strong legs, like us, so it is able to walk on two legs.
		Chacma baboons live in groups together which can be from 10-200 of them.
	www.123helpme.com /view.asp?id=57846 (648 words)

	Dr. Ellen K. Rudolph - Baboon (Papio ursinus)
		Baboons are the largest members of the monkey family, possessing heads with long, naked, dog-like muzzles.
		The baboon's principal enemy is the leopard but even leopards will avoid an encounter with the larger, adult males who are quite vicious adversaries.
		Baboons walk on all four limbs with their tails held in a characteristic arch.
	www.drellenrudolph.com /africa/animal03.html (312 words)

	Chacma Baboons, Cape of Good Hope, Cape Point.
		The Chacma Baboon troops on the Cape peninsula are the only protected population of this species in Africa.
		Baboons that have been conditioned to receive food from humans may have to be destroyed.
		These baboons have been living with humanity for hundreds of years - they are very clever and sneaky snatchers if it involves something to eat.
	www.sunsetbeach.co.za /cape_point/chacma_baboons.htm (328 words)

	Chacma Baboon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Chacma baboons are found in Namibia mainly in rocky regions.
		Baboons live gregarious with several females, youngs and one ruling male.
		Really wild baboons are scared of men and tend to impress by threatening gestures.
	www.namibia.de /fauna/hunters/descr/en/hu_ds_cb.html (173 words)

	Africa on the Matrix: Savanna Baboons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The olive baboons were found in the parks further north, including Lake Manyara National Park and the Ngorongoro Crater in northern Tanzania and the Masai Mara and Lewa Downs in Kenya.
		Baboons' vision is very similar to our own and they do not see well in the dark.
		Baboons are very social animals and travel in large troops dominated by several males.
	www.on-the-matrix.com /africa/baboons.asp (542 words)

	Baboon Pictures of the Clown of the African Savannah
		Their eyes are very expressive and if you can't see them clearly the baboon pictures lose a lot of their impact.
		Chacma baboons are commonplace in most of the reserves in Southern Africa so you shouldn't have a problem finding them when you go on safari there.
		Baboon mothers normally give birth to a single baby which is weaned after a year and then takes five to eight years to reach sexual maturity.
	www.african-safari-pictures.com /baboon-pictures.html (436 words)

	Baboon
		Baboons are ground dwelling monkeys who, in the wild, live in groups from 15 to 200 indivuals.
		The strongest and most dominant males (usually with largest canines) travel near the center of the troop with the infants and their mothers.
		Baboons prefer to live on rocky plains or in hilly regions, although sometimes they are found in sparse forests.
	www.primatecare.com /baboon.htm (128 words)

	Papio ursinus, the chacma baboon on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
		This young male is a member of the southernmost troop of baboons on the planet.
		Baboons that live near humans get very agressive and generally nasty.
		You see, baboon society is all about relationships, who's getting off with whom, sturm und drang, and bluff.
	www.flickr.com /photos/sharman/128998931 (446 words)

	A closer look at the Chacma Baboon
		A monkey with attitude; these baboons are mainly ground dwellers; their home-territories include grasslands, semi-desert, rocky caves and seaside cliffs.
		.Baboons always travel in strict formation with males leading, females and young in the centre and other males surrounding.
		It may be unattractive to us, but male baboons wouldn't agree as it is a way that female baboons attract a mate!
	www.aucklandzoo.co.nz /aucklandzoo/animal_search_detail.php?id=7 (205 words)

	Chacma baboon behavior.
		Do not stand around with food in your hands or with open boot, windows or doors.
		Baboons WILL grab your food from your hands or steal food and bags from inside the car.
		Baboons WILL run up to you and grab your food.
	www.sunsetbeach.co.za /cape_point/chacma_baboon_behaviour.htm (57 words)

	The Chacma Trail
		The Chacma trail is a 31km guided nature trail from Cape Point to the historic Simon's Town over 2 days.
		Don't forget to look back at the great view of the Chacma trail, right from the very tip of Cape Point all the way along the coast to where you are now.
		And then it is farewell, but quite possibly not goodbye, to this delightful town, which entices with it promise of future discoveries should you return one day.
	www.simonstown.com /chacmatrail/index.htm (1289 words)

	NATURE. Murder in the Troop. Resources \| PBS
		Find out more about the chacma's range, ecology, and various means of communication on this Web site.
		All you every wanted to know about chacma baboons can be found on this Web site from the University of Michigan's Museum of Zoology.
		Read a brief overview of the chacma baboon.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/nature/murder/resources.html (244 words)

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