Yellow Baboon
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| Yellow Baboon Conservation status: Lower risk (lc) | ||||||||||||||
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| Papio cynocephalus (Linnaeus, 1766) |
The Yellow Baboon (Papio cynocephalus) is a baboon from the Old World monkey family.
They have a slim body with long arms and legs and a yellowish-brown skin. They resemble the Chacma Baboon but are smaller and their muzzle is not as elongated. The hairless face is black, framed with white sideburns. Males can grow to about 84 cm, female to about 60 cm. They have long tails, which become nearly as long as the body.
Yellow Baboons inhabit savannahs and light forests in the eastern Africa, from Kenya and Tanzania to Zimbabwe and Botswana. They are diurnal, terrestrial and live in complex mixed gender social groups. They are omnivorous with a preference for fruits, but they also eat other plant parts as well as insects and small vertebrate animals.
There are three subspecies of Yellow Baboon:
- Papio cynocephalus cynocephalus
- Papio cynocephalus ibeanus
- Papio cynocephalus kindae
