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baboon

[ US /bəˈbun/ ]
[ UK /bæbˈuːn/ ]
NOUN
  1. large terrestrial monkeys having doglike muzzles

How To Use baboon In A Sentence

  • Other animals, such as waterbucks, kudus, warthogs, and baboons, drank from the same troughs.
  • The baboon would keep the goats together as they grazed during the day, giving alarm calls if it spotted cheetahs or leopards. Times, Sunday Times
  • As for the primates such as monkeys and baboons, the main effect of the high temperatures is that they lose their appetites.
  • Keep an eye out for chacma baboons, but don't get too close! The Sun
  • Running around this landscape of giant heathers, you will also see ostriches, bonteboks, baboons and, if you are lucky, a fly-past from a blue crane.
  • In terms of wildlife, you find elephant, buffalo, hippos, baboons, chimpanzees and over 600 species of birds.
  • The crater is home to elephant, buffalo, baboon, reedbuck, colobus monkeys, leopard and duikers.
  • In some areas of Yemen the Hamadryas baboon (Papio hamadryas) is still widespread but said to be declining, while the population of Saudi Arabia is expanding and has become common around cities such as Abha and Taif. Southwestern Arabian montane woodlands
  • This 'bloody baboonery', as the communists called the highly publicized police performance, was preceded by inspired press reports of evidence - more sensational than the notorious Zinoviev letter, - of a revolutionary plot directed from Moscow to prepare the way for the black republic. Class & Colour in South Africa - Chapter 18
  • They included baboons, chimpanzees, and macaques - all known to live in large, mixed-sex groups.
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