Baboon
Baboons are monkeys of the genus Papio. They are one of the largest kinds of monkey. It is an intelligent Old World monkey. It lives on the ground in groups called troops. Troops can be as small as a few baboons or as big as several hundred members.
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| Hamadryas baboon (Papio hamadryas) | |
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| Genus: | Papio Erxleben, 1777
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Distribution
Baboons live in forests and on savannahs in Africa and on the Arabian Peninsula. As they move into the open land, the family groups come together into groups several hundred strong, led by adult males that work together to protect the others from predators.
Diet
Baboons are omnivores (they eat both plants and meat). They eat grasses, roots, insects and other small animals, like lizards, small mammals, fish, birds, and snakes. In some places, they steal food from humans.
Predators
Leopards, cheetahs, African wild dogs, lions, hyenas and people hunt the baboon. To scare the predator away, baboons can show their eyelids, show their teeth, chase the predator, and make noise.
To understand their lives, one must see them in their natural environment.[1]
Baboon Media
Face of a hamadryas baboon (Papio hamadryas)
Chacma baboon Papio ursinus, skull, Coll. Museum Wiesbaden
Male olive baboon showing his canines. Ngorongoro National Park, Tanzania, 2014.
A troop of baboons on a road in Tanzania, 2001.
Young Olive baboon on the back of its mother, Lake Manyara National Park, Tanzania
A trained baboon operating a railway junction for a disabled signalman in Uitenhage, 1884.
Baboons caught up a tree by Kalahari lions (1 of 3)
Baboons caught up a tree by Kalahari lions (2 of 3)
Baboons caught up a tree by Kalahari lions (3 of 3)
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