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  Baboon - MSN Encarta
The yellow baboon is native to western, central, and eastern Africa, south to Mashonaland in Zimbabwe.
It is known as the sacred baboon because it was deified by the ancient Egyptians.
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   (489 words)

  
 Primate Factsheets: Yellow baboon (Papio cynocephalus)
Yellow baboons are aptly named for the yellow-brown fur which covers their bodies except for their undersides, including the inner surfaces of the limbs, cheeks, and patches of fur on either side of the muzzle, which are white (Rowe 1996; Groves 2001).
Baboons have a diverse diet and are able to exploit a wide variety of foods, a necessity in an environment that is highly seasonal and in which the availability of food varies in abundance throughout the year.
Primate Factsheets: Yellow baboon (Papio cynocephalus) Taxonomy, Morphology, and Ecology.
pin.primate.wisc.edu /factsheets/entry/yellow_baboon   (2262 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Baboon Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
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 muzzless, in the truncated extremity of which are pierced the nostrils.
The typical representative of the genus is the yellow baboon (P. cynocephalus, or babuin), distinguished by its small size and grooved muzzle, and ranging from Abyssinia to the Zambezi.
www.ipedia.com /baboon.html   (677 words)

  
 Baboons guide - Monkeymania guide to primates
Baboons are ground-dwelling creatures and generally group in numbers ranging from 15 to 200 in size.
The yellow baboon has yellow-brown to yellow-grey fur and their cheek hair is lighter than the hair on top of their heads.Adult male yellow baboons have a mane.
Yellow baboons live in multi-male, multi-female groups with a distinct dominance hierarchy and overlapping territories.
www.monkeymania.co.uk /azbaboon.htm   (593 words)

  
 Baboon Article, Baboon Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
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, andlong naked dog-like muzzles, inthe truncated extremity of which are pierced the nostrils.
The typical representative of the genus is the yellow baboon (P. cynocephalus, orbabuin), distinguished by its small size and grooved muzzle, and ranging from Abyssinia to the Zambezi.
www.anoca.org /papio/hamadryas/baboon.html   (709 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)

  
 Yellow Baboon (Papio cynocephalus)
The average body mass for an adult male yellow baboon is around 23 kilograms, and for the female it is around 12 kilograms.
The yellow baboon is found in the countries of Angola, Botswana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Somalia, Tanzania, Zaire, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
The yellow baboon is a frugivorous species, but leaves also constitute a major part of the diet.
members.tripod.com /uakari/papio_cynocephalus.html   (1432 words)

  
 Other Primates in Diani
Baboons are monkeys (although they are often wrongly referred to as apes) and are not threatened although their numbers have been declining in Africa overall in the recent years because of eradication programmes.
The Yellow baboon is a mainly terrestrial, coastal baboon with yellow-brown hair, barrel chests, a prominent muzzle, naked face, large cheek pouches and close-set, amber-coloured eyes.
Baboon infants are born fl with pink faces, hands and ears, but turn brown in colour with darker faces with older age, usually beginning at about six months of age.
www.colobustrust.org /primates.html   (1468 words)

  
 ANIMAL BYTES - Yellow Baboon
Baboons have complex social structures with anywhere from 8 to 200 individuals per troop.
A baboon group's hierarchy is such a serious matter, some sub-species have developed interesting behaviors intended to avoid confrontation and retaliation.
Due to their extremely opportunistic lifestyle, baboons have been able to fill a tremendous number of different ecological niches, including places considered adverse to other animals such as regions taken over by human settlement.
www.seaworld.org /animal-info/Animal-Bytes/animalia/eumetazoa/coelomates/deuterostomes/chordata/craniata/mammalia/primates/yellow-baboon.htm   (484 words)

  
 Baboon facts
Apart from humans, baboons are the most adaptable of the ground-dwelling primates and live in a wide variety of habitats.
Baboons sleep, travel, feed and socialize together in groups of about 50 individuals, consisting of seven to eight males and approximately twice as many females plus their young.
By the time the young baboon is 5 to 6 weeks old it can ride on her back, hanging on by all four limbs; in a few months it rides jockey style, sitting upright.
www.outtoafrica.nl /animals/engbaboon.html?zenden=2&subsoort_id=1&bestemming_id=1   (719 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.
sailfish.exis.net /~spook/babtxt.html   (1920 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)

  
 Jungle Photos Africa Animals mammals - baboon natural history
Baboon behavior is complex, based on a social hierarchy within bands or troops up to 50 strong.
Baboons are highly successful and widespread primates of Africa and Asia.
Baboons have a doglike muzzle, large cheek pouches and a short tail.
www.junglephotos.com /africa/afanimals/mammals/baboonnathist.shtml   (572 words)

  
 Kenya safari guide - Kenyalogy: Wildlife: Mammals: Olive baboon
Distributed throughout the country except in eastern regions, where it is replaced by the yellow baboon.
Baboons are inefficient killers, reason why they generally do not stalk prey but rather benefit from casual encounters and animals that conceal themselves when attacked, such as gazelle youngs.
Yellow baboon (Papio cynocephalus): it can be distinguished from the olive baboon by its lighter body, with longer and more slender limbs.
www.kenyalogy.com /eng/fauna/babuino.html   (1059 words)

  
 ADW: Papio: Information
The characters typical of northern anubis baboons are gradually replaced by typical yellow baboon characters, and those, in turn, are replaced by typical chacma baboon characters.
Baboons have large ischial callosities, which are fused along the midline in males, but separated by the genitals in females.
The acquisition of dominance rank in baboons is due partly to the activities of the mother, who forces subordinates to accept and respect her daughter as dominant to them.
animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu /site/accounts/information/Papio.html   (5439 words)

  
 BABOON   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
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)

  
 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 northeast Africa (hamadrayas), and cold montane grasslands of the Ethiopian Highlands.
All the adult males join forces; their readiness to cooperate in defending the troop is the reason baboons can wander the savanna with impunity, even in the presence of lions.
Fear paralysis a baboon cornered during a chase (e.g., large juvenile male run down by adult male), crouches or lies flat, rigid with fear, meanwhile grimacing and churring.
www.nature-wildlife.com /babtxt.htm   (1934 words)

  
 baboons in africa
The sacred baboon occurs in the arid reaches of the Horn of Africa.
Baboons frequently forage alongside antelope, giraffe and zebra, as the acute hearing of these herbivores provides an early warning device against predators.
The drill and mandrill are the forest counterparts of the savanna baboons.
www.wildwatch.com /resources/mammals/baboon.asp   (789 words)

  
 Baboons   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The baboons mostly live in the savannas and rarely in the woodlands.
The two most common baboons can be found in east Africa and they are the olive baboon and the yellow baboon.
Baboons mostly eat grass along with berries, seeds, pods, blossoms, leaves, roots, bark and sap from a variety of plants.
www.angelfire.com /or/africanhistory/field6.html   (272 words)

  
 BABOON   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
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.
www.snowcrest.net /goehring/a2/primates/baboon.htm   (349 words)

  
 Yellow Baboon -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The Yellow Baboon (Papio cynocephalus) is a (Large terrestrial monkeys having doglike muzzles) baboon from the (Of Africa or Arabia or Asia; having nonprehensile tails and nostrils close together) Old World monkey family.
They resemble the (Grayish baboon of southern and eastern Africa) Chacma Baboon but are smaller and their muzzle is not as elongated.
They are (additional info and facts about omnivorous) omnivorous with a preference for fruits, but they also eat other plant parts as well as insects and small vertebrate animals.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/y/ye/yellow_baboon.htm   (163 words)

  
 AWF: Wildlife: Baboon
With tourism and human populations encroaching on their territory, baboons have been know to kidnap crying human infants confusing them as their own young.
Baboons also eat insects and small quantities of meat, such as fish, shellfish, hares, birds, vervet monkeys, and small antelopes.
The baboon is intelligent and crafty; it can be an agricultural pest, so is often treated as vermin.
www.awf.org /content/wildlife/detail/baboon   (799 words)

  
 Pictures, Photos of Primates
Baboons eat a variety of plants and animals, including grass and grass seeds, fruit, pods, roots, and tubers that they dig out of the ground.
The yellow baboon (P. cynocephalus) is one of the smaller baboon species and is found from the Zambezi northward to the Kenya coast and Somalia.
The anubis, or olive baboon (P. anubis), is the second largest baboon species and is olive in color; the male has a large mane of hair over the head and shoulders.
www.shunya.net /Pictures/Animals/Primates.htm   (899 words)

  
 Animal Portal - Baboons
Baboons eat a wide variety of food, generally whatever is in abundance.
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.animalport.com /animals/Baboons.html   (1081 words)

  
 BBC - Science & Nature - Wildfacts - Yellow baboon
Adult males have a mane and infants are born with a fl coat.
Yellow baboons occupy southern equatorial and east Africa.
Yellow baboons are at lower risk of extinction.
www.bbc.co.uk /nature/wildfacts/factfiles/227.shtml   (207 words)

  
 Baboon and Impala Together   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Baboons and impala are common throughout the Okavango Delta, Botswana.
Having personally observed baboon and impala, I've concluded that there are two benefits for impala: the baboons have a structured early warning system to detect predators, and they are generally messy feeders and drop a lot of food onto the ground from trees which the impalas feed on.
Benefits to the baboon probably revolve around the principle of safety in numbers, with the eyes, ears, and noses of the impala adding to the troop's alertness.
home.comcast.net /~tom-day/babim.html   (1778 words)

  
 Baboon and Impala Together   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Baboons and impala are common throughout the Okavango Delta, Botswana.
Having personally observed baboon and impala, I've concluded that there are two benefits for impala: the baboons have a structured early warning system to detect predators, and they are generally messy feeders and drop a lot of food onto the ground from trees which the impalas feed on.
Benefits to the baboon probably revolve around the principle of safety in numbers, with the eyes, ears, and noses of the impala adding to the troop's alertness.
egan.webstrikesolutions.com /babim.html   (1744 words)

  
 Baboon information and pictures
They stick very close together for safety, and no baboon wanders very far from the group at any time.
Each group of baboons has a dominant male, who makes all of the decisions and generally looks after the others.
Baboons wander the African plains, feeding on plants, buds, and fruit.
www.animaltime.net /primates/baboon.html   (99 words)

  
 EOSMITH.COM -- Publications
Predation on a yellow baboon (Papio cynocephalus cynocephalus) by a lioness in the Tana River National Primate Reserve, Kenya.
Yellow baboon labor and parturition at the Tana River National Primate Reserve, Kenya.
Yellow baboons in the Tana River Primate Reserve.
www.eosmith.com /publications.html   (967 words)

  
 Kenya Beasts - Primates
There are 2 subspecies found in Kenya; the Yellow Baboon found in Eastern Kenya and the Olive Baboon found throughout the rest of the country.
The 2 species can be told apart by build, the Yellow Baboon is slimmer and longer limbed, and by the presence of a mane (present in the Olive Baboon but absent in the Yellow).
Baboons live, and travel, in troops, gathering together at night to sleep in trees or among rocks.
www.kenyabeasts.org.uk /four.htm   (694 words)

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