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Also Known As	Chaeropithecus • Papio

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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.

anubis baboons (Papio anubis)

Figure 36: Mother olive baboon (Papio anubis) and young.

The video thumbnail image shows two black and white photos of monkey and ape heads, surrounded by blue and pink circles.

Observe a baboon troop descend from treetops to rove, play, and forage in the Tanzanian landscape

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