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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
Members of this family are called cercopithecoids, or Old World monkeys, and include baboons, colobuses, guenons, lutungs, macaques, and other types of monkeys. Cercopithecoidea contains only a single family, Cercopithecidae , and includes nearly half of the species in the suborder Haplorhini , itself one of two suborders in the order Primates.
Articles relating to Baboons (genus Papio), one of the 23 genera of Old World monkeys, in the family Cercopithecidae. There are six species of baboon: the hamadryas baboon , the Guinea baboon , the olive baboon , the yellow baboon , the Kinda baboon and the chacma baboon .
The chacma baboon, native to southern Africa, has become quite familiar with the urban setting. Most of these primates spend the majority of their time in the hills and slopes on Cape Town’s ...
Baboon Temporal range: 2.0–0 Ma Pre๊ ๊ 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 ...
A man jogs past as a chacma baboon forages in the garden of a home in a suburban neighborhood of Da Game Park, near Simon's Town, outside of Cape Town, South Africa, Oct. 31, 2024.
The chacma baboon (Papio ursinus), also known as the Cape baboon, is from the Old World monkey family. It is one of the largest of all monkeys. Found primarily in southern Africa, the chacma baboon has a wide variety of social behaviors, including a dominance hierarchy, collective foraging, adoption of young by females, and friendship pairings.
This is a complete list of least concern mammalian species and subspecies evaluated by the IUCN. Species and subspecies which have least concern subpopulations (or stocks) are indicated. Where possible common names for taxa are given while links point to the scientific name used by the IUCN.