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Chacma Baboon

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Chacma Baboon

Scientific classification

Kingdom:

Animalia

Phylum:

Chordata

Class:

Mammalia

Order:

Primates

Family:

Cercopithecidae

Genus:

Papio

Species:

P. ursinus

Binomial name

Papio ursinus
(Kerr, 1792)

The Chacma Baboon (Papio ursinus) is, like all other baboons, from the Old World monkey family. With a body length of up to 115 cm and a weight from 15 to 31 kg, it is the largest and heaviest baboon species. It has dark-brown or grey hair with a long snout; unlike other baboons, the males do not have a mane. The Male Chacma Baboon can have canine teeth as long as 2 inches (longer than a lion's canine teeth). Baboons are sexually dimorphic, males being considerably larger than females.

Its range is southern Africa and extends south of Angola, Zambia and Mozambique to South Africa. Sizes and skin coloring can vary within that range; particularly small individuals occur in the Kalahari.

Baboons Grooming

Baboons Grooming

Like all baboons it lives in groups, mostly in mixed social groups. Troops consist of many individuals with different social rankings and generally a co-dominance between an Alpha Female and Male. Female ranking within the troop is inherited through the mother and remains quite fixed. Male ranking, however is tenuous and changes often. Baboon troops possess a complex group behavior and communicate by means of body attitudes, facial expressions, sounds/calls and touch. Unlike other primates, Baboons do not live in trees. Baboons dwell in the grasslands or savannas in Africa. The Chacma Baboon is omnivorous with a preference for fruits, while also eating insects, seeds and smaller vertebrate animals.

The Chacma Baboon is widespread and does not rank among threatened animal species. However, their numbers are dwindling due to predation for sport by humans.

There are three subspecies of the Chacma Baboon:

 

Yellow Baboon

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Yellow Baboon

Scientific classification

Kingdom:

Animalia

Phylum:

Chordata

Class:

Mammalia

Order:

Primates

Family:

Cercopithecidae

Genus:

Papio

Species:

P. cynocephalus

Binomial name

Papio cynocephalus
(Linnaeus, 1766)

The Yellow Baboon (Papio cynocephalus) is a baboon from the Old World monkey family.

It has a slim body with long arms and legs and a yellowish-brown hair. It resembles the Chacma Baboon but is smaller and its muzzle is not as elongated. The hairless face is black, framed with white sideburns. Males can grow to about 84 cm, females to about 60 cm. It has a long tail which grows to be nearly as long as the body.

The Yellow Baboon inhabits savannahs and light forests in the eastern Africa, from Kenya and Tanzania to Zimbabwe and Botswana. It is diurnal, terrestrial, and lives in complex mixed gender social groups. It is omnivorous with a preference for fruits, but it also eats other plant parts as well as insects and small vertebrate animals.

There are three subspecies of the Yellow Baboon:

 

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