Least ConcernYellow Baboon
Papio cynocephalus
43 countries30 parks
Species group · Mammals
WAnimals has 2 species of baboon, in the family Cercopithecidae.
Ranges calculated from the profiles that record the figure, not from all 2.
Each one has its own full profile. This group does not replace them: it brings them together.
No species documented in this group is genuinely at risk according to the IUCN, with the data available today.
Recorded in 43 countries. The ones with the most species in the group:
The subject of over 50 years of social-behaviour research at Amboseli, in Kenya.
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The population of the Amboseli basin in Kenya has been followed continuously since 1971 and is one of the longest-running studies of wild primates in existence, with individual pedigrees spanning more than half a century.
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Females inherit their mother's social rank: the daughter of a dominant female will hold a high position from a young age, and the hierarchy is thus passed down the female line for generations.
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The troops on the Cape Peninsula come down to the shore to eat mussels, limpets and small stranded sharks, behaviour unique among African primates.
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The males have the longest canines of any primate in proportion to their body, able to exceed five centimetres.
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