baboon
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Cape Town’s real estate has a baboon problem.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026
Indeed, the Jane Goodall Institute now runs a longstanding baboon research project based partly on the fact that baboons are important chimpanzee prey.
From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2025
A few of Bischoff’s early taxidermy pieces are still on display, including a dog, which looks more like a cross between a wolf and a baboon, dating to the 1920s.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2025
"The possibility that T. rex might have been as intelligent as a baboon is fascinating and terrifying, with the potential to reinvent our view of the past," concluded Dr Darren Naish.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 29, 2024
An elder with gray hair and a beard began a fable about a baboon.
From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer
Living in nomadic groups, the men use handmade bows and arrows to hunt Cape buffalo, baboons and the rodent-like hyrax.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 2026
Goodall, in removing the barriers, raised primatology to new heights, opening the way for research on subjects ranging from political coalitions among baboons to the use of deception by an array of primates.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2025
Overcrowding had caused an "increase in conflicts" between the baboons and no alternative for re-housing them could be found, the zoo said.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2025
That would mean they had more neurons than baboons, with perhaps even enough intelligence to use tools — the T. rex's notoriously tiny arms notwithstanding.
From Salon ● May 4, 2024
Impalas grazed around the baboons as though they were bushes.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
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