Chacma
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Papio ursinus |
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
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
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Papio cynocephalus |
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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