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	Baboon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Baboons are terrestrial (ground dwelling) and are found in savanna, open woodland and hills across Africa.
		Baboons in captivity have been known to live up to 45 years, while in the wild their life expectancy is about 30 years.
		The Hamadryas Baboon has very large groups comprised of many smaller harems (one male with four or so females), to which females from elsewhere in the troop are recruited while still too young to breed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Baboon (1315 words)

	Baboon - MSN Encarta
		Baboons generally are adapted to life on the ground and avoid forests; they range in large herds, called troops, over rocky, open lands and wooded areas of Africa and Arabia.
		The yellow baboon is native to western, central, and eastern Africa, south to Mashonaland in Zimbabwe.
		The chacma is classified as Papio ursinus, the olive baboon as Papio anubis, the yellow baboon as Papio cynocephalus, the hamadryas baboon as Papio hamadryas, the mandrill as Mandrillus sphinx, the drill as Mandrillus leucophaeus, and the gelada as Theropithecus gelada.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761574412/Baboon.html (468 words)

	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)

	Hamadryas Baboon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is the northernmost of all the baboons; its range extends from the Red Sea in Egypt to Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia.
		The Hamadryas Baboon is omnivorous and is adapted to its relatively dry habitat.
		The loss of its habitat by transformation in field and pastureland represents the main threat of the Hamadryas Baboon, its natural enemies (leopards and lions) having been nearly exterminated in their range.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hamadryas_Baboon (296 words)

	Hamadryas Info
		Hamadryas baboons (Papio hamadryas hamadryas) range throughout the semi-arid regions of the Horn of Africa, including parts of Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, Djibouti, and Eritrea, and the southwestern part of the Arabian peninsula in Yemen and Saudi Arabia.
		Called "desert baboons" to distinguish them ecologically from other Papio baboons ("savanna baboons" and "mountain baboons"), hamadryas are unique among primates with regard to their complex, multi-level social system and their extreme male-dominated society, both of which have been viewed as adaptations to a harsh semi-desert environment.
		Cohesion of hamadryas one-male units is maintained by aggressive herding behavior of leader males, who threaten and bite females that lag behind, wander too far away, or interact with individuals outside the unit.
	qcpages.qc.edu /ANTHRO/swedell/filoha/Pages/hamadryas_info/hamadryas_info.html (598 words)

	South Lakes Wild Animal Park - Hamadryas Baboon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Baboons live in communities called troops, there can be over 100 animals in a troop and that group is split into smaller harems within the larger group.
		The Hamadryas Baboon was the sacred baboon of the ancient Egyptians and is associated with sun worship.
		Hamadryas Baboons are omnivorous and the diet is dictated by availability of food, in the dry season in Kenya their diet is around 90% grass.
	www.wildanimalpark.co.uk /animals/africa/baboon.htm (241 words)

	Hamadryas Baboon (Papio hamadryas)
		The average body mass for an adult male hamadryas baboon is between 20 and 30 kilograms, and for the female it is between 10 and 15 kilograms.
		The hamadryas baboon moves on the ground quadrupedally (Fleagle, 1988).
		So there is a four-tier social system within the hamadryas baboon, first the unimale group, or harem, then the clan made up of a couple of unimale groups, then the ban made up of a number clans, then finally the troop which comes together during the night for sleeping purposes.
	members.tripod.com /uakari/papio_hamadryas.html (1096 words)

	BBC - Science & Nature - Wildfacts - Hamadryas baboon, sacred baboon
		The ancient Egyptians considered hamadryas baboons to be the sacred attendants of Thoth, the scribe to the gods.
		Male hamadryas baboons are grey with a long shoulder cape, and the females are olive brown without a cape.
		Hamadryas baboons occupy Somalia, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia and Yemen.
	www.bbc.co.uk /nature/wildfacts/factfiles/228.shtml (249 words)

	Sierra Safari Zoo - Baboons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		The Hamadryas baboon is considered sacred in Egypt.
		Both olive and Hamadryas baboons are native to northeast Africa.
		The Hamadryas baboons are considered sacred in Egypt and are thus also known as the sacred baboon.
	www.sierrasafarizoo.com /animals/baboons.htm (199 words)

	Food and Water
		Hamadryas baboons are omnivorous and will often eat a wide range of things; they spend a lot of time gathering food by climbing into trees, picking, digging, or tearing from the ground.
		Feeding of hamadryas baboons is not fixpunkt and occurs at several places such as watering holes, en route to watering hole during the daily travel path into the savanna, and mostly away from the sleeping rock.
		The hamadryas baboons forage in large groups for food especially when food is abundant; however, they may break into smaller units primarily the one-male units to forage for food during period of food scarcity (Kummer 1968).
	www.bio.davidson.edu /people/vecase/Behavior/Spring2004/kenyi/Food_and_Water.htm (556 words)

	Baboon
		The young baboon is born fully furred and rides on its mothers back, remaining dependent on her for learning and support until it is two years old.
		Baboons reach sexual maturity at around four and a half years of age, and have a life span of around 35 years.
		The Hamadryas Baboon was the sacred baboon of the ancient Egyptians, often pictured on temples and monoliths as the attendant or representative of Thoth, the god of letters and scribe of the gods.
	www.wellingtonzoo.com /animals/animals/primates/baboon.html (473 words)

	baboon. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Baboons live in brush, grassland, or rocky country, foraging on the ground for roots, seeds, fruits, insects, and small animals, including other monkeys.
		Baboons are subtle, intelligent animals and can become dangerous nuisances if they learn to raid fields or houses for easy food.
		Baboons are classified in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, class Mammalia, order Primates, family Cercopithecidae.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ba/baboon.html (346 words)

	Micke Grove Zoo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Hamadryas baboons (Papio hamadryas) are also known as the sacred or dog-faced baboons.
		Hamadryas baboons are found in northeastern Sudan, eastern Ethiopia, northern Somalia and the southwestern Arabian Peninsula.
		Baboons live in bands of 20-90 animals consisting of several dominant males, their harems and offspring.
	www.co.san-joaquin.ca.us /mgzoo/animals/baboon.htm (629 words)

	Oakland Zoo: Hamadryas Baboon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Hamadryas baboons are preyed upon by leopards, jackals, hyenas, cheetahs and lions, and infants are sometimes taken by eagles.
		V. Hamadryas flexible social structure is adapted to two special local conditions: the lack of safe sleeping places and the difficulty of finding food in the tree-less semi-desert in which they live.
		The Hamadryas was the sacred baboon of the ancient Egyptians, often pictured on temples and monoliths as the attendant or representative of Thoth, the god of letters and scribe of the gods.
	www.oaklandzoo.org /atoz/azbaboon.html (666 words)

	The Effects of Interbreeding on the Morphological and Genetic Attributes of Non-human Primates / Beth Christine Laas
		It seems also that gene flow around the borders between hamadryas and anubis groups could possibly be caused by the kidnapping of anubis females; however, the fact that a group formed of almost pure anubis that consisted of almost pure anubis genes only by one-way gene flow suggests something else.
		The hamadryas baboons are more accustomed to living in dry, semi-desert scrub regions while the anubis live in savanna and woodland-type environments.
		The anubis baboons are vulnerable to periods of drought, and they suffer more than the hamadryas, in that they may experience a much higher rate of dental problems resulting from starvation or malnutrition (Phillips-Conroy 1978).
	www.soa.ilstu.edu /anthropology/theses/laas (3106 words)

	Baboon Pictures
		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.
		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).
		Many authors distinguish P. hamadryas as a full species, but regard all the others as subspecies of P. papio and refer to them collectively as "savanna baboons"; even between hamadryas and the neighbouring savanna populations there is a stable zone of hybridisation.
	www.junglewalk.com /photos/Baboon-pictures-I6540.htm (392 words)

	Baboon,Mammals,Baboon Picture,Mammal Pictures,Catalog,Encyclopedia
		Baboons range in length from 50 to 110 cm (20 to 43 in), plus a tail that is 35 to 68 cm (14 to 27 in) long.
		Baboons walk or gallop on all fours, sniffing the air with their long, doglike muzzles, and carry their tails in an arch.
		Baboons prefer to live on rocky plains or in hilly regions, although sometimes they are found in sparse forests.
	www.4to40.com /earth/geography/htm/mammalsindex.asp?counter=9 (353 words)

	Animal of the Month (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Baboons live in troops which usually number between 20 and 80 individuals, though bigger groups of well over 100 are known.
		The Hamadryas baboon was considered sacred by the ancient Egyptians, and were often depicted as the attendant to Thoth, the God of writing.
		Baboons are hunted for their meat, as a pest, and for sport.
	www.trianglemetrozoo.com /baboon.asp (721 words)

	Ancient Egypt: the Mythology - Baboon
		Baboons carried out Thoth's duties as the god of measurement when they were portrayed at the spout of water clocks, and on the scales which weighed the heart of the deceased in the judgement of the dead.
		Baboons were said to guard the first gate of the underworld in the Book of That Which is in the Underworld.
		Baboons were often portrayed in art with their arms raised in worship of the sun.
	www.egyptianmyths.net /baboon.htm (416 words)

	BABOON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Baboons have a marked sexual dimorphism with the male weighing about twice as much as the female.
		Baboons occupy a wide range of major vegetational zones in mid to southern Africa and south-eastern Asia including sub-desert, savannah, Acacia thornveld, forest- savannah mosaic and rain forest.
		Baboons are diurnal and sleep from before night until after dawn, like most humans wish they could.
	users.snowcrest.net /goehring/a2/primates/baboon.htm (349 words)

	baboon on Encyclopedia.com
		Baboon bone marrow transplanted into AIDS patient; Getty reported "doing well" after Dec....
		BABOON [baboon] any of the large, powerful, ground-living monkeys of the genus Papio, also called dog-faced monkeys.
		Baboon fathers really do care about their kids; NSF-funded study suggests paternal care may be ancient trait in primates.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/b1/baboon.asp (487 words)

	Martin Rowe - Playing Ape
		Hamadryas baboons (named after the woodnymph by Linnaeus, a choice that baffles even Kummer) are noteworthy for their large red rumps, dog-like faces, luxuriant mantles of hair (in males at least), and aggressive attitude.
		The hamadryas differs from other baboons in the horn of Africa and lower Arabian peninsula-among them the anubis, yellow baboon, and gelada-in its superior size and range of travel, as well as its extension of habitat from the savannah into semi-desert regions.
		In Quest of the Sacred Baboon hints at that larger, more holistic, conclusion-if only because by the time Kummer has exhaustively, and sometimes exhaustingly, categorized and described each and every action of the hamadryas, you get a sense that they are more than the sum of their genes.
	www.martin-rowe.com /a.php?id=54 (835 words)

	Hamadryas Baboon
		Mae, a baboon, is a retired circus performer.
		Grooming is a very intimate way for baboons to express their acceptance of each other.
		Baboons eat all sorts of leafy plants, berries, nuts, and small insects.
	www.blackpineanimalpark.com /Animals/baboon.htm (222 words)

	Baboon
		Hamadryas baboons have paler, silvery hair and red faces, and their nostrils open much lower down on the snout.
		Both species have buttock pads, but those of the Hamadryas baboon are an eye catching red, while those of the gelada baboon are a sombre fl.
		The hamadryas baboon lives in scattered clans in the virtually treeless landscapes of northeastern Africa and southern Arabia.
	homepage.eircom.net /~criley/profiles/mammals/baboon.htm (808 words)

	Hamadryas baboon
		The Hamadryas baboon is found in Ethiopia, Somalia, Saudi Arabia and Yemen.
		Hamadryas baboons inhabit semi-arid grass plains and rocky hill country, from sea level to 2600 meters.
		They were an emblem of the god Thoth, who was depicted either as a man with the head of a baboon or as a squatting baboon, or as an ibis or ibis-headed man. Thoth was a god associated with reading and writing, literature, arts and learning.
	www.dierinbeeld.nl /animal_files/mammals/hamadryas_baboon (506 words)

	hrdy
		Male hamadryas baboons are not only bigger, but far flashier in appearance, endowed with an intimidating mane of hair and a face the color of raw beef steak -- as different from the mousy grey-brown females as if they belonged to two different species.
		These savanna baboons were the first monkeys to be extensively studies, and they were depicted as having a social structure that in many respects was the mirror image of the kind of organization then found in American universities and corporate structures.
		The main difference between savanna baboon males and females is not that males are active and females passive, but the fact that females stay in the troop of their birth while males are transients.
	condor.depaul.edu /~mwilson/extra/women/hrdy.html (1919 words)

	Hamadryas Baboon Skull
		Hamadryas Baboon - The hamadryas baboon, the smallest of the baboons, is native to eastern Africa.
		Among baboons, this species forms the largest troops ranging from 100 to 750 individuals.
		Baboons as a species, exhibit great sexual dimorphism with the adult males doubling the females in size.
	www.skullsunlimited.com /hamadryas-baboon-skull.html (110 words)

	NC Zoo™ - North Carolina Zoo : Hamadryas Baboon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Diet: Hamadryas baboons are omnivores that eat a primarily vegetarian diet of Acacia, sisal, euphorbia, and occasionally insects and lizards.
		Environmental Connections: Hamadryas baboons inhabit dry rocky regions of the savanna and semi-desert in northern Africa.
		Currently baboon numbers are strong in the wild but habitat destruction and human persecution pose threats for the future.
	www.nczoo.org /animal_id/africa_baboon.cfm (404 words)

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