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Baboon Temporal range: 2.0–0 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓ Early Pleistocene – Recent Olive baboon Yellow baboon calls recorded in Kenya Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Primates Suborder: Haplorhini Infraorder: Simiiformes Family: Cercopithecidae Tribe: Papionini Genus: Papio Erxleben, 1777 Type species Papio ...
The Cercopithecinae are a subfamily of the Old World monkeys, which comprises roughly 71 species, including the baboons, the macaques, and the vervet monkeys.Most cercopithecine monkeys are limited to sub-Saharan Africa, although the macaques range from the far eastern parts of Asia through northern Africa, as well as on Gibraltar.
The olive baboon is named for its coat, which, at a distance, is a shade of green-grey. [5] At closer range, its coat is multicoloured, due to rings of yellow-brown and black on the hairs. [6] The hair on the baboon's face is coarser and ranges from dark grey to black. [5]
The chacma baboon (Papio ursinus), also known as the Cape baboon, is, like all other baboons, from the Old World monkey family. It is one of the largest of all monkeys. Located primarily in southern Africa, the chacma baboon has a wide variety of social behaviours, including a dominance hierarchy, collective foraging, adoption of young by females, and friendship pai
The yellow baboon (Papio cynocephalus) is a baboon in the family of Old World monkeys. The species epithet means "dog-head" in Greek, due to the dog-like shape of the muzzle and head. Yellow baboons have slim bodies with long arms and legs along with yellowish-brown hair.
The word mandrill is derived from the English words man and drill—the latter meaning ' baboon ' or ' ape ' and being West African in origin—and dated to 1744. [3] [4] [5] The name appears to have originally referred to chimpanzees. [6]
Dusky leaf monkeys (Trachypithecus obscurus). Cercopithecoidea is a superfamily of primates.Members of this family are called cercopithecoids, or Old World monkeys, and include baboons, colobuses, guenons, lutungs, macaques, and other types of monkeys.
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