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
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
Thoth, the god of learning and wisdom was represented by a hamadryas baboon.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 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
Just before the baboon parents came back, however, the hare got into the lion skin and was a lion again.
From "The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa" by Alexander Mccall Smith
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
Other wild animals like elephants and baboons also feature in the new series, which is narrated by Sir David Attenborough.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 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
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
In the afternoon the baboons returned, and she lay on a conveniently flat rock to watch Tag.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
