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An adult baboon carries a baby baboon on her back. A baboon uses its hands to groom another baboon's back at the Nuremberg Zoo in Germany, with both animals facing slightly different directions.
The video thumbnail image shows two black and white photos of monkey and ape heads, surrounded by blue and pink circles.
chacma baboon anubis baboons (Papio anubis) Figure 36: Mother olive baboon (Papio anubis) and young.
Observe a baboon troop descend from treetops to rove, play, and forage in the Tanzanian landscape
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anubis baboons (Papio anubis)
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Young chimpanzee dressed in a shirt and sweater vest, scratching his head thinking. (primates)
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baboon: References & Edit History

Additional Reading

Hans Kummer, In Quest of the Sacred Baboon: A Scientist’s Journey, trans. from German (1995), is a narrative account of this primatologist’s study of the hamadryas baboon. Baboon Tales (1998), directed by Gillian Darling Kovanic, explains and portrays on video the life of a baboon troop during a newborn’s first year.

Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Invalidated site: PNAS - The aging baboon: Comparative demography in a non-human primate. Oct 01, 2026
Add new Web site: Cell Press - Current Biology - Baboons. Jul 10, 2026
Add new Web site: Biomed Central - Movement Ecology - The ecological determinants of baboon troop movements at local and continental scales. Mar 21, 2025
Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - A Comprehensive Overview of Baboon Phylogenetic History. Jan 11, 2025
Media added. Oct 04, 2024
Add new Web site: Cell Press - Current Biology - Dominant baboons experience more interrupted and less rest at night. Sep 27, 2024
Add new Web site: PNAS - The aging baboon: Comparative demography in a non-human primate. Jul 15, 2024
Add new Web site: The Royal Society Publishing - Philosophical Transactions B - On the evolution of baboon greeting rituals. Jun 08, 2024
Add new Web site: PNAS - The aging baboon: Comparative demography in a non-human primate. Apr 27, 2024
Add new Web site: University of Wisconsin Madison - Wisconsin National Primate Research Center - Olive baboon. Feb 02, 2024
Add new Web site: University of Notre Dame - Amboseli Baboon Research Project - About baboons. Dec 15, 2023
Add new Web site: Princeton University - Baboon social life. Mar 10, 2023
Add new Web site: LiveScience - Facts About Baboons. Jan 27, 2017
Add new Web site: OneKind - Baboon. Jan 27, 2017
Add new Web site: African Wildlife Foundation - Baboon. Jan 27, 2017
Add new Web site: A-Z Animals - Baboon. May 16, 2013
Add new Web site: Buzzle.com - Baboon. May 16, 2013
Added new Web site: AllMusic - TV on the Radio. Apr 14, 2009
Media added. Jan 09, 2009
Corrected cross referencing errors. Jan 09, 2009
Added new Web site: National Geographic - Animals - Baboon. Sep 02, 2008
Added new Web site: Animal Planet - Baboon. May 28, 2008
Added new Web site: Enchanted Learning - Baboon. Mar 14, 2008
Article revised. May 29, 2002
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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