Yellow Baboon

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iYellow Baboon

Scientific classification

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Primates
Family:	Cercopithecidae
Genus:	Papio
Species:	P. cynocephalus

Binomial name

Papio cynocephalus
(Linnaeus, 1766)

The Yellow Baboon (Papio cynocephalus) is a baboon from the Old World monkey family.

It has a slim body with long arms and legs and a yellowish-brown hair. It resembles the Chacma Baboon but is smaller and its muzzle is not as elongated. The hairless face is black, framed with white sideburns. Males can grow to about 84 cm, females to about 60 cm. It has a long tail which grows to be nearly as long as the body.

The Yellow Baboon inhabits savannahs and light forests in the eastern Africa, from Kenya and Tanzania to Zimbabwe and Botswana. It is diurnal, terrestrial, and lives in complex mixed gender social groups. It is omnivorous with a preference for fruits, but it also eats other plant parts as well as insects and small vertebrate animals.

There are three subspecies of the Yellow Baboon:

Papio cynocephalus cynocephalus
Papio cynocephalus ibeanus
Papio cynocephalus kindae

[edit] References

Butynski et al (2000). Papio cynocephalus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 12 May 2006.
Groves, Colin (16 November 2005). Wilson, D. E., and Reeder, D. M. (eds): Mammal Species of the World, 3rd edition, Johns Hopkins University Press, 166. ISBN 0-801-88221-4.