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
In this study, the researchers examined a collection of baboon mummies from the ancient Egyptian site of Gabbanat el-Qurud, the so-called Valley of the Monkeys on the west bank of Luxor.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 6, 2023
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
“She doesn’t like it. Oh, dear!” said a Mask with baboon fangs and fur.
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
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
Zoos in other countries that baboons had previously been sent to had also reached capacity and contraception measures had failed to slow the population growth, the zoo said.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2025
Giraffes have roughly the same number of neurons that crows and baboons have, Holtz pointed out, but they don’t use tools or display complex social behavior in the way those species do.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2024
There were four kinds of monkeys in addition to the baboons, and many smaller animals such as squirrels and mongooses.
From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall
