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Mandrills (Mandrillus sphinx) and baboons (Papio) are both large primates who form complex social groups and are highly intelligent. These large, powerful monkeys both inhabit Africa, and they are ...
In the Cape Peninsula of South Africa, the research team studied 78 distinct travel movements of a group of wild chacma baboons (Papio ursinus).In their 36-day trial, clear patterns emerged in the ...
Observing the social lives of baboons. Kinda baboons were classified as a subspecies of yellow baboons (Papio cynocephalus) until 2013, when genetic evidence revealed them to be different enough ...
The bones represented dozens of individual baboons — from infants to adults — in two species: the hamadryas baboon (Papio hamadryas) and the olive baboon (Papio anubis).
According to her mitochondria DNA, this baboon was related to a modern-day species known as Papio hamadryas, found in the plains and open-rock areas of the Red Sea Coast.
The mirrors were placed by water points favored by two troops of chacma baboons (Papio ursinus). When a baboon stared into the mirror, a scientist would shine a laser pointer onto the animal’s ...
Last spotted near Claremont and Kenilworth, authorities are on the scene to relocate the wild animal. First Gordy the seal a ...
Now, using high-resolution GPS tracking, researchers from Swansea University have re-examined this behavior in a group of wild chacma baboons (Papio ursinus) on South Africa's Cape Peninsula.
Ancient Egyptian baboon . For over a millennium, from the 9th Century BCE to the 4th Century CE, ancient Egyptians venerated and mummified various animal species for religious purposes.
A mummified baboon (specimen 90001206) recovered from Gabbanat el-Qurud, Egypt and held by the Musée des Confluences, France. The geographic origin of another baboon from this same assemblage has ...
"Since predynastic times, baboons (Papio hamadryas and Papio anubis) were important in ancient Egypt for ritual and religious purposes," the study said. Researchers examined the skeletal remains ...