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

Lucius has a knack for showmanship, with moves he stole from Maximus, but he’s more feral, going tooth-to-tooth with a nasty baboon in a podunk ring outside the city.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 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

"This young chacma baboon is sitting on its mother's back playing the fool."

From BBC • Oct. 4, 2023

Then there came a baboon, which peered into the bowl, but did not touch the milk.

From "The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa" by Alexander Mccall Smith