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    Chacma Baboon
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    Chacma Baboon

    Papio ursinus

    Primates
    Least Concern

    No sighting locations on record yet

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    Chacma Baboon facts

    Taxonomy

    KingdomAnimalia
    PhylumChordata
    ClassMammalia
    OrderPrimates
    FamilyCercopithecidae
    GenusPapio

    About the chacma baboon

    The chacma baboon, also known as the Cape baboon, is, like all other baboons, from the Old World monkey family. It is one of the largest of all monkeys. Located primarily in southern Africa, the chacma baboon has a wide variety of social behaviours, including a dominance hierarchy, collective foraging, adoption of young by females, and friendship pairings. These behaviors form parts of a complex evolutionary ecology. In general, the species is not threatened, but human population pressure has increased contact between humans and baboons. Hunting, trapping, and accidents kill or remove many baboons from the wild, thereby reducing baboon numbers and disrupting their social structure.

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