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.
Female baboons tend to form the tightest bonds with their mothers, aunts, and sisters.
Since receiving the baboon marrow, Getty has had moderate increases in his immune cell numbers, Deeks said.
But unlike the peripheral baboons, who are physically controlled by the dominant ones, the peripheral men are not powerless.
Who else had a voice that could express the rage of a baboon, a leopard and a hippopotamus in one rise and fell swoop? GALILEE
Baboon spiders or tarantulas, as they are known outside Africa, are the giants of the spider world.
Large troops of gelada baboons roam through the park and graceful Walia Ibex lord over the loftier spots. Ben Colclough: Walking on top of the world
The trail isn't supposed to be a wildlife safari, but we sight many kudu, oryx, baboons and mountain zebra, and a huge Kori Bustard taking to the air.
Genetic tests indicate that the viruses came from chimpanzees, baboons, and an African green monkey.
Although every baboon is a distinct, highly individuated self, each seems to exist simultaneously as self-in-community or even as self-in-communion.
As far as many people are concerned your brand of loony left wing tribal politics is just as corrosive and harmful as the EDL's baboonery. The Guardian World News
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
Baboons barked an alarm and thereafter bulbuls, warblers, shrikes, robins and other feathered choirs begun to sing.
Tsavo West is filled with crocodiles, vervet monkeys, antelope, baboons, giraffes and hippos.
These days, I study things like differences in "cultures" between troops of baboons, how the cultures are propagated, the consequences of the differing cultures for the health of individuals. An Interview with Dr. Robert Sapolsky
Shelter, and the usual rude accommodation, supplemented on this occasion by a wandering luti and his vicious-looking baboon, as also a company of riotous charvadars, who insist on singing accompaniments to the luti's soul-harrowing tom-toming till after midnight, are obtained at the caravansarai of Deh Mollah. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama
I mean, the sht flinging Baboon is a veritable luminary in the field of politics. Think Progress » ThinkFast: January 20, 2010
It was shown that the organism could cause conjunctivitis in baboons and, after inoculation in the urethra, a urethritis as well.
Where is Mappo now?" asked a small baboon, which is another kind of monkey. Nero, the Circus Lion His Many Adventures
Much of the supposed behaviour of Lucy and her companions is clearly modelled on baboons - yet baboons are monkeys and not apes at all.
A free-ranging vervet monkey, baboon, or macaque recognizes other members of his group as individuals.
The park is the refuge for threatened animals such as gelada baboon, Simen fox and Walia ibex, a goat species endemic to Simen Mountains. Simen National Park, Ethiopia
This story about a troop of baboons showed that if you remove all the aggressive, dominant males, everybody remaining has a more peaceful life. Trying to apply that to humans would be a laugh though.
And the fact that women anywhere are willing to dignify such baboonery with a response infuriates me. What's That Got To Do With the Price of an Intact Hymen in China?
Greengrocers lined the sidewalks with the last of the jabalieh tomatoes, big meaty pink and green fruits whose rippling flesh puckered into circles like little baboon butts mooning you all in a row. Day of Honey
Swift unnavigable waters, swinging screaming baboons, sleeping snakes, red gums ready for their sweet white blood.
Other Sahelian mammal species include an isolated and presumably highly inbred population of around 70 olive baboons Papio anubis, in the Tamgak massif, and an estimated 500 Patas monkeys Erythrocebus patas in the central massifs and plateaux. Aïr and Ténéré Natural Reserves, Niger
In 2003 I was shortlisted for a reference to the bright red bottom of a baboon. Times, Sunday Times
Apart from those already mentioned there are zebras, camels, baboons, lemurs, sea lions, humboldt penguins, tapirs and meerkats.
You might meet an occasional "klipspringer" (an antelope in habits and appearance somewhat like the chamois), a wandering troop of baboons, and now and then a herd of eland in the more grassy areas. Kafir Stories Seven Short Stories
A free-ranging vervet monkey, baboon, or macaque recognizes other members of his group as individuals.
The baboons became infected with the virus and four of the baboons developed lymphadenopathy and three of the animals exhibited CD4 T-cell loss within nineteen to twenty-four months after inoculation. 'The AIDS Heresy': Another Exchange
We could sit on the veranda and be joined by monkeys and baboons while watching the animal activity in the lagoon. Times, Sunday Times
Cases abound in natural history studies of ants, chimps, baboons, etc., who, in extremis, give their existence for continuity of their kin.
Baboons are highly intelligent animals and learn to satisfy their biological needs in many often diverse ways.
In fact, Huxley argued, a human differs much less from an ape, such as a chimpanzee or gorilla, than an ape does from a baboon.
By contrast, many Old World monkeys, such as baboons and macaques, live longer, start to reproduce later, and have more time between babies.
This is what happened to Benjamin, my bozo of a baboon, who during his brief ascendancy became a jerk.
There are baboons in the greener regions of the south. The Sun
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
The 48 mammal species include Chacma baboon Papio cynocephalus ursinus, 5 species of carnivora including the blackbacked jackal Canis mesomelas, ardwolf Proteles cristatus and serval Felis serval, 11 species of artiodactyla and 16 species of rodentia, 11 of which last are endemic to South Africa. UKhahlamba Drakensberg Park, South Africa
I try not to call anyone's religion loony mysticism, even if they believe that a great lavender baboon ass flies about the sky and poops out blessings.
This Forrest is home to baboons and vervet monkeys.
To know and to be aware of many things is like a man too fat for his house and this obese pig of a man is forced onto the streets where he can't tolerate the heat and cold because of his flab; and then I come along and suck through his baboonish skin before he knocks off. Corpus of a Siam Mosquito
The trail isn't supposed to be a wildlife safari, but we sight many kudu, oryx, baboons and mountain zebra, and a huge Kori Bustard taking to the air.
De Waal: Solly Zuckerman was an anatomist who, tragically, established a group of hamadryas baboons at the London Zoo in the wrong way and then assumed their murderous behavior was the same in nature. Eric Michael Johnson: Frans de Waal on Politics, Fairness, and Human Nature
Take a letter to Kublai Khan, " I said to Mon Cul, pretending that the baboon was my secretary. Another Roadside Attraction
If correct, this diphyletic take on mangabey affinities would mean that geladas, baboons, drills and mandrills do not form a clade of ‘dog-faced cercopithecids’ as conventionally thought. Archive 2006-06-01
The pain of the early hour is alleviated by a member of staff bearing a tray of tea - who will wait until you take the tray, in case the roaming baboons get their hands on your home-baked cookies.
One baboon-like monkey who is seriously endangered but still hunted illegally is the drill.
It's well known among primatologists that the number of males within a group of, say, baboons, chimpanzees, or lemurs is related to the number of females.
Like the baboons, the ibex had somehow learned to defy the odds.
A baboon and a monkey are sitting patiently on a pallet awaiting their lift back to the limelight.
As it has been said, the Baboon is certainly someone to talk about honor and harakiri; he should have followed his own advice long ago. Think Progress » Glenn Beck: ‘There aren’t enough knives’ for ‘dishonored’ climate scientists to kill themselves.
They can also help one another to defeat an attack by rival male baboons that are attempting to take over their shared females.
The spiderlings of the horned baboon spider only commence moving about 50 days after hatching.
Numerous primates, including chimps, baboons, black lemurs and capuchins, dip into the jungle pharmacy to combat parasites.
Skepsey, journeying one late afternoon up a Kentish line, had, in both senses of the word, encountered a long-limbed navvy; an intoxicated, he was compelled by his manly modesty to desire to think; whose loathly talk, forced upon the hearing of a decent old woman opposite him, passed baboonish behaviour; so much so, that Skepsey civilly intervened; subsequently inviting him to leave the carriage and receive a lesson at the station they were nearing. Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
Sometimes it's as interesting to study primate researchers as it is to study the apes, baboons, and monkeys.
Most of the zoo's remaining animals, including their lynxes, reptiles and baboons, are being moved to specialist facilities elsewhere.
You smiled with satisfaction when you saw how great the improvement was that baboonery had made toward manhood. Rattlin the Reefer
The mammal fauna of the forests and forest margins includes yellow baboon (Papio cynocephalus), red-footed squirrel (Funiscurius pyrrhopus), blue duiker (Cephalophus monticola), and bushpig (Potamochoerus porcus), but has been severely reduced through hunting. Angolan montane forest-grassland mosaic
As well as being represented as an Ibis or a man with an ibis head he showed up as a baboon a lot.
Amongst other things we saw a cheetah, which is pretty rare, and we also had a good time watching the baboons and warthogs hanging out together on the savannah. Serengeti, ngorongoro crater, and lake manyara
I looked round, and the baboon caught my eye, which told him plainly that he'd soon catch what was not at all _my eye_; and he proved that he actually thought so, for he at once put the bread-and-butter back into the boy's hands! Adventures in Many Lands
Since receiving the baboon marrow, Getty has had moderate increases in his immune cell numbers, Deeks said.
Panurge the calf, Panurge the whiner, Panurge the brayer, would it not become thee much better to lend us here a helping hand than to lie lowing like a cow, as thou dost, sitting on thy stones like a bald-breeched baboon? Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
Catarrhines (gorilla, chimpanzee, and orang) are in every respect slighter than the corresponding differences between the highest and the lowest Catarrhines (white-nosed monkey, macaco, baboon, etc.). The Evolution of Man — Volume 2
Once in a while it was broken by chacma baboons that approached the compound in search of a handout. Mission Of Honor
I thought it was an aasvogel, but another thought it was a baboon. Prester John
Members of such groups sometimes even feed peacefully side by side on superabundant resources in areas of territorial overlap, as occurs in the baboons I studied.
The 48 mammal species include Chacma baboon Papio cynocephalus ursinus, 5 species of carnivora including the blackbacked jackal Canis mesomelas, ardwolf Proteles cristatus and serval Felis serval, 11 species of artiodactyla and 16 species of rodentia, 11 of which last are endemic to South Africa. UKhahlamba Drakensberg Park, South Africa
Many on the left have reacted to him and his fellow evolutionists like a troop of shrieking baboons.
Robin Dunbar, who studies baboons, thinks that human language started as a substitute for grooming, because humans lived in such large groups that grooming was impractical. The Benefits of Tickling
Baboons are highly intelligent animals and learn to satisfy their biological needs in many often diverse ways.
But you sure enjoyed “The xmas sweater” by the slobbering sht flinging Baboon. Think Progress » Steele on serving as RNC chair: God has ‘placed me here for a reason.’
One day, while we were eating a red monkey erroneously called the baboon, in Demerara, an Arowack Indian told an affecting story of what happened to Wanderings in South America
A great many of us are familiar with the baboon and vervet monkey.
The greatest scoundrel is always captain of the band of patrols; they are the offscouring of all things, the refuse, the fag end, the ears and tails of slavery; the scales and fins of fish, the tooth and tongues of serpents; they are the very fool's cap of baboons, the echo of parrots, the wallet and satchel of pole-cats, the scum of stagnant pools, the exuvial, the worn out skins of slaveholders; they dress in their old clothes; Narrative of the sufferings of Lewis Clarke : during a captivity of more than twenty-five years, among the Algerines of Kentucky, one of the so called Christian states of America, by dictated
The end of the 60s saw too many flowered, silked, brocaded and babooned pop stars giving the peace sign with the missus in front of their rock 'n' roll manors before retreating indoors and screaming "Where's my f------ breakfast?! Andrew Loog Oldham: Mods & Rockers Festival: Mocking The Rockers
Played basketball with Huan and Baboon yesterday.
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Black rhino, buffalo, eland and warthog (Phacochoerus africanus) have been reintroduced, while natural populations of greater kudu, bushbuck, common duiker and springbuck (Antidorcas marsupialis) as well as chacma baboons (Papio hamadryas) and vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus aethiops) are common. Maputaland-Pondoland bushland and thickets
Research in the first phase of the project (1988-1990) focused on wildlife and domestic stock censuses, vegetation dynamics, ostrich breeding biology, and the ecology of aoudad and baboon. Aïr and Ténéré Natural Reserves, Niger
Baboons will gang up on a leopard in a similar way, although this is a risky venture.
In these reports, the baboons were described as hamadryas baboons, which in the past may have lived in the Red Sea mountains. Interactive Dig Hierakonpolis - Weird Animals
They can also help one another to defeat an attack by rival male baboons that are attempting to take over their shared females.
She cared about birds, baboons, whales and caracal cats. Here Lies Paul Eight Feet Under
Medium-sized mammals, such as chacma baboon (Papio ursinus), honey badger (Mellivora capensis), aardvark (Orycteropus after), and rock hyraxes (Procavia capensis) are all found in this ecoregion. Montane fynbos and renosterveld
Female baboons tend to form the tightest bonds with their mothers, aunts, and sisters.
At the same time it's a couple of levels below what I do with the baboons, which involves looking at who is successful in the highly competitive, back-stabbing baboon societies and what this has to do with physiology.
Look out, too, for vervet monkeys, baboons - and giant tortoises.
“Ernest Saves Christmas” made more money than the “sht stained sweater” by the Baboon. Think Progress » Steele on serving as RNC chair: God has ‘placed me here for a reason.’
This is a particularly noticeable thing about baboons, or perhaps it is what humans cannot avoid noticing - being so well trained to look down upon such immodest displays.
The abattoir is expected to produce salami, polony, ribs and tinned baboon meat for markets in central Africa and eastern ANC Daily News Briefing
The idea was that once the baboon had grown up it would protect the livestock from predators like cheetah and leopard. Times, Sunday Times
A free-ranging vervet monkey, baboon, or macaque recognizes other members of his group as individuals.
Baboons are highly intelligent animals and learn to satisfy their biological needs in many often diverse ways.
Is it racist if Rafiki the baboon is played by Patrick Ewing without any make-up in The Lion King? TYLER PERRY TYLER PERRY TYLER PERRY
The mutual assistance of harem owners in driving off non-reproductive males may be the basis of herd formation in the gelada baboon.
But unlike the peripheral baboons, who are physically controlled by the dominant ones, the peripheral men are not powerless.
Baboon Papio hamadryas visual preferences for regions of the face. INSIDE OF A DOG
Once I heard two calling to each other across a valley, a weird sound, vaguely resembling a baboon's bark.
Baboon organs are too small to sustain people for long periods.
His hair was almost as disheveled and unkempt as mine, and he was the first baboon in the troop who ever interacted with me.
That Bolshevism was foul baboonery was obvious to any but the most ardent and simple socialist utopian. Eraser Wars | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
Briggs came across as a seemingly opportunistic and somewhat ineffectual politician, but regardless of his baboonery, the issue that he and his supporters tapped into -- "gay teachers" -- was volatile enough to find large-scale support among the electorate. Rob Epstein: What Harvey Milk Tells Us About Proposition 8
Hamadryas baboons (Papio hamadryas) are common in the woodlands throughout the ecoregion and both the blue monkey (Cercopithecus mitis) and the vervet monkey (Chlorocebus aethiops) occur in the forests. South Malawi montane forest-grassland mosaic
I. i.259 (286,2) The strain of man's bred out/Into baboon and monkey] Man is exhausted and degenerated; his _strain_ or lineage is worn down into monkey. Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies
They have to contend with elephants, hippos, bushpigs, porcupines, vervet monkeys, baboons and birds which are after their crops.
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
Its varied diet ranges from larger animals such as bushbuck (Tragelaphus scriptus), chacma baboon (Papio ursinus), and bushpig (Potamochoerus larvatus) to smaller animals including mice. Knysna-Amatole montane forests
Squeers, Pumblechook; so with giraffes, baboons, dodoes, dromedaries, -- all are freaks from the æsthetic viewpoint, but think of the overflowing energy implied in creating them! Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived
On the one side we have baboons, lions, elephants, buffaloes, and giraffes; on the other spider-monkeys, pumas, tapirs, anteaters, and sloths; while among birds, the hornbills, turacos, orioles, and honeysuckers of Africa contrast strongly with the toucans, macaws, chatterers, and hummingbirds of America.
The great apes, gorillas and chimpanzees, form the core of this zone, which is also home to the mandrill baboon, the bongo antelope, and the red river hog.
The ancient statue overlooking the granite basin depicts a supine, sneering wanderoo but the Romans, because of its ugliness, compared it to a monkey or, more exactly, a baboon.
It is found to a degree in gorillas but a closer similarity occurs in baboons.
Currently we've got warthogs, monkeys, a baboon, small antelopes, a scrub hare and an Egyptian goose.
Presumably, these relatively open habitats favored larger groups as they did for chimps and baboons, the two other open-country primates.
I should object to the appellation orang-outang, and I should resent with emphasis that of baboon. A Strange Discovery
Apart from those already mentioned there are zebras, camels, baboons, lemurs, sea lions, humboldt penguins, tapirs and meerkats.
Similar trends have also been observed for gelada baboons (Theropithecus gelada), in which altitude, which is highly correlated with ambient temperature, was found to correlate negatively with birth rate.
To these species of monkeys, one can add black and white colubus; gray cheeked Mangabey, red tailed monkey, bus baby, potto and olive baboon. TravelPod.com Recent Updates
Gorillas practice infanticide and chimpanzees hunt and torture baboons.
In fact, Huxley argued, a human differs much less from an ape, such as a chimpanzee or gorilla, than an ape does from a baboon.
It's well known among primatologists that the number of males within a group of, say, baboons, chimpanzees, or lemurs is related to the number of females.
On the top of this tree, in among the branches, sat a monkey -- at least so Ailie called it; but the term ape or baboon would have been more appropriate, for the creature was a very large one, and, if the expression of its countenance indicated in any degree the feelings of its heart, also a very fierce one -- an exceedingly ferocious one indeed. The Red Eric
They included baboons, chimpanzees, and macaques - all known to live in large, mixed-sex groups.
The term "fieldwork" generally brings to mind biologists, baboons and binoculars. Don't Be Lame
By contrast, many Old World monkeys, such as baboons and macaques, live longer, start to reproduce later, and have more time between babies.
At the same time it's a couple of levels below what I do with the baboons, which involves looking at who is successful in the highly competitive, back-stabbing baboon societies and what this has to do with physiology.
In his defence, Herselman argued that the word baboon was common in conversational Afrikaans and had no malicious or bad intentions. News24
In this park of 137 sq km area, you will see baboon, colobus and vervet monkeys, duikers, elephant, buffalo, giraffe, hippo, leopard, hyena, zebra and a wide range of antelopes.
Members of such groups sometimes even feed peacefully side by side on superabundant resources in areas of territorial overlap, as occurs in the baboons I studied.
The baboon is a vegetarian but no bigot, and will eat mutton chops without protest. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, June 6, 1917
In the past, the University of Veracruz transported a colony of red-cheeked changos (mandrill baboons native to Thailand) to the island for studies. Laguna Catemaco, Veracruz
The hamadryas baboon is a harem holder where one male mates with multiple females. Eric Michael Johnson: Frans de Waal on Politics, Fairness, and Human Nature
By daybreak, the elephants were gone, and in their place came a troupe of perhaps 60 baboons, some descending from the mopane trees to lift anything moveable, their pals defecating from a great height on the car.
Oh yeah? Well what if I told you that scientists have recently made discoveries that suggest baboons are capable of abstract thought?
The mammal fauna of the forests and forest margins includes yellow baboon (Papio cynocephalus), red-footed squirrel (Funiscurius pyrrhopus), blue duiker (Cephalophus monticola), and bushpig (Potamochoerus porcus), but has been severely reduced through hunting. Angolan montane forest-grassland mosaic
The teeth and the jaws of the Australopithecus resemble the teeth of a present species of baboon Theropithecus gelada in Ethiopia.18 This is probably because they are both adapted to eat the same type of food. Modern Science in the Bible
In addition to valuable investigations of fossil-bearing beds in the Argentine, he made some excellent general suggestions, such as that the pithecoid apes, like the baboons, do not stand in the line of mans ancestral stem but represent a divergence from it away from humanity and toward a retrogressive bestialization. Appendix A. The Work of the Field Zoologist and Field Geographer in South America
Such pets weren't limited to dogs and cats but included baboons, monkeys, and gazelles.
There are three easy-to-see, endemic, large mammals: the mountain nyala, Ethiopian wolf and gelada baboon.
The ape and the baboon are the most skilled of all animals in making their flight. The Human Side of Animals
Even though my passion for the hunt has largely run dry, isn't it heartening to know that in this day and age, we still have the ability to conjure up our own sets of imaginary flying monkeys, whether they're celestial baboons attempting to steal one's thoughts, or, as I like to think of them, winged capuchins tinkering with the PPM of our city's water. Martin Marks: In Soft Water
We spent many early evenings down at the swimming pool, paddling when the water was not deep enough for total immersion, listening to the baboons shrieking and gabbling from a nearby hill.
Regardless of whether Darwin is 100 percent correct and our primogenitors once walked on monkey hands, I doubt whether you'd find one person who would advocate that we deal with social problems in the same manner that baboons and chimps deal with them.
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How come even the sht flinging Baboon considers himself a part of milking you morons, er, supporting the teabagging bowel movement? Think Progress » ThinkFast: January 20, 2010
Mostly all baboons have long almost dog like muzzles, heavy powerful jaws, close-set eyes thick fur except on their muzzle rough spots on their rear ends and a short tail, the rough spots on the rear ends of the baboon are called ischial callosities. CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
You might meet an occasional "klipspringer" (an antelope, in habits and appearance somewhat like the chamois), a wandering troop of baboons, and now and then a herd of eland in the more grassy areas. Stories by English Authors: Africa (Selected by Scribners)
And this activity, which we stolid beef-eaters, before we had been taught by modern science that we were no better than baboons ourselves, were wont discourteously to liken to that of the livelier tribes of Monkey, did in fact so much impress the Hollanders, when first the irriguous Franks gave motion and current to their marshes, that the earliest heraldry in which we find the Frank power blazoned seems to be founded on a Dutch endeavour to give some distantly satirical presentment of it. Our Fathers Have Told Us Part I. The Bible of Amiens
The mutual assistance of harem owners in driving off non-reproductive males may be the basis of herd formation in the gelada baboon.
Other animals, such as waterbucks, kudus, warthogs, and baboons, drank from the same troughs.
Humans and gorillas are sister taxa and are more closely related to one another than either is to chimpanzees or baboons.
Our data set was comprised of eight species: a Platyrrhini, the white-fronted capuchin monkey, two cercopithecoids: the Barbary macaque and the hamadryas baboon, four hominoids and an outgroup sequence.
a mandrill baboon sitting Species: M. sphinx fur except on their muzzle rough spots on their rear ends and a short tail, the rough spots on the rear ends of the baboon are called ischial callosities. CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
Chimps and gorillas have been taught to use complex sign languages, Rhesus macaques demonstrate knowledge of basic math, and baboons are known to commonly deceive one another to their own ends.
He does have some choice words about Wagner, which include such gems as "boniest doggerel of sounds I ever endured," and "blundering, boggling, baboon-blooded stuff. The Skills to Pay the Bills
Other inhabitants of Selous are bush back, waterbuck, reedbuck, impala, eland, giraffe, baboon, zebra, and greater kudu.
The Cape of Good Hope is a wild, windswept nature reserve that would pass for coastal Kerry, except for the baboons and unusual vegetation.
They have to contend with elephants, hippos, bushpigs, porcupines, vervet monkeys, baboons and birds which are after their crops.
Another puzzling aspect of the spotted hyena's social structure is that it closely resembles that of the socially complex old-world monkeys, a group including baboons and macaques.
Large troops of gelada baboons roam through the park and graceful Walia Ibex lord over the loftier spots. Ben Colclough: Walking on top of the world
Tsavo West is filled with crocodiles, vervet monkeys, antelope, baboons, giraffes and hippos.
Black rhino, buffalo, eland and warthog (Phacochoerus africanus) have been reintroduced, while natural populations of greater kudu, bushbuck, common duiker and springbuck (Antidorcas marsupialis) as well as chacma baboons (Papio hamadryas) and vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus aethiops) are common. Maputaland-Pondoland bushland and thickets
They found that drill-mangabeys and drills and mandrills shared numerous features that aren’t present in baboon-mangabeys and baboons. Archive 2006-06-01
Once I heard two calling to each other across a valley, a weird sound, vaguely resembling a baboon's bark.
Its varied diet ranges from larger animals such as bushbuck (Tragelaphus scriptus), chacma baboon (Papio ursinus), and bushpig (Potamochoerus larvatus) to smaller animals including mice. Knysna-Amatole montane forests
The appreciation for and tolerance of being called the N-word by anyone and for whatever reason, is tantamount to accepting the moniker of monkey, baboon or some other primate to which Blacks have offensively been compared.
Baboons and molerats are dependent upon geophytes, and molerats are capable of eating toxic geophyte bulbs, such as Boophane spp., Montane fynbos and renosterveld
The idea was that once the baboon had grown up it would protect the livestock from predators like cheetah and leopard. Times, Sunday Times
Lipids are believed to be an important macronutrient for baboon diet selection, especially during the winter months, which may explain the use of such unlikely resources as E. ingens.
Where in the Rights of Man would you find anything about thrashing cheeky baboons or debagging nosey wildlife photographers? The japing ape
In addition to valuable investigations of fossil-bearing beds in the Argentine, he made some excellent general suggestions, such as that the pithecoid apes, like the baboons, do not stand in the line of man's ancestral stem but represent a divergence from it away from humanity and toward a retrogressive bestialization. Through the Brazilian Wilderness
I've never caught a glimpse but I bet his bum's bright red like a baboon's too.
Must be because he worships Dr. Weiners and the sht flinging Baboon Beck. Think Progress » On House GOP Website, Republican Leadership Takes Credit For Successful Stimulus Project
Whilst the baboonery of fascism skipped and capered in Germany, Italy. Eraser Wars | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
Even the great Mariette Pacha, father of ‘serious’ Egyptology, drew for Aida costumes that were on the sulfurous side, such as baboons at the feet of Radames!
The park is the refuge of extremely rare species such as the Walia ibex, Simien wolf and the gelada baboon. Simen National Park, Ethiopia
Every year more than 10,000 non-human primates, including baboons, owl monkeys rhesus macaques and marmosets are transported by commercial airlines to research labs.
It would seem that even they must know of the knuckle-dragging, race-baiting reactionary baboons.
They were thought to work as did their chemical counterparts excreted by monkeys, baboons and chimpanzees.
Baboons are especially notorious for this rather unnwholesome exhibitionist behaviour.
The crater is home to elephant, buffalo, baboon, reedbuck, colobus monkeys, leopard and duikers.
I am certain I never saw an uglier or more baboonish face in my life, but Uncle Zack was a good Christian, and I would sometimes wake him up to hear him talk Christian. "Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show
By the time we've finished considering what it takes for the male Gelada baboon to attract a mate (a lot) -- or, for that matter, what is required of the male moth, Capuchin monkey, lyrebird or any of the other sexual suitors on display here -- no one will be thinking about what any of it means for human sexual enterprise. Calls of the Wild
The physiological connection is close enough that surgeons have attempted heart and liver transplants from baboon to human.
They signed up the sht flinging Baboon under a MULTI-MILLION, MULTI-YEAR contract. Think Progress » Fox News VP: We ‘hope’ Palin will be ‘polarizing’ as a Fox News contributor.
Skeletal and dental morphology supports diphyletic origin of baboons and mandrills. Archive 2006-06-01

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