baboon

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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

“They were showing Ridley the baboon because it was an interesting anatomical structure,” Bakowski recalls.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2024

"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

In 1984 an infant known as Baby Fae received a baboon heart and lived for three weeks before her immune system rejected the organ.

From Scientific American • Oct. 19, 2023

They filled the skin with baboon droppings, sewed it up, and propped it against the farmer’s door.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer