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Hamadryas Baboon

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Habitat

Dry, rocky areas and thorn bushes.

Wild Diet

Roots, grass seed, bulbs and occasionally small mammals.

Behaviour

A troop of baboons may number over 200 individuals and is organised into bands, clans and families. Each family unit has an adult male leader and anything from 1 to 10 females with young.

Breeding

One youngster (but sometimes two) is born after a gestation of 26 weeks (6 months).

Threats

The hamadryas baboon is not currently thought to face any major threats. However it may be at some risk to habitat loss from overgrazing and agricultural expansion.

Conservation

Protection in the Simien Mountains National Park (Ethiopia). They breed very successfully in zoos.

 

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  • Latin Name: Papio hamadryas
  • Class: Mammals
  • Order: Primates
  • Family: Cercopithecidae
  • Conservation status: Least Concern
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Research with teeth: why do baboons floss?

Research with teeth: why do baboons floss?
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 Researchers from the University of Exeter and Paignton Zoo have discovered that baboons can learn how to floss their teeth.