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

"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

It would be just barely possible to leap from stone to stone—if you were a baboon.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer