Hamadryas Baboon
Zoo Location: Primley
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.
INFORMATION
- Latin Name: Papio hamadryas
- Class: Mammals
- Order: Primates
- Family: Cercopithecidae
- Conservation status: Least Concern
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