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baboon

[ba-boon, buh-] / bæˈbun, bə- /
NOUN
ape
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Indeed, the Jane Goodall Institute now runs a longstanding baboon research project based partly on the fact that baboons are important chimpanzee prey.

From Salon Oct. 1, 2025

Lucius has a knack for showmanship, with moves he stole from Maximus, but he’s more feral, going tooth-to-tooth with a nasty baboon in a podunk ring outside the city.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 21, 2024

"The possibility that T. rex might have been as intelligent as a baboon is fascinating and terrifying, with the potential to reinvent our view of the past," concluded Dr Darren Naish.

From Science Daily Apr. 29, 2024

In 1984 an infant known as Baby Fae received a baboon heart and lived for three weeks before her immune system rejected the organ.

From Scientific American Oct. 19, 2023

One day, as Nhamo watched the baboon troop pass beneath her platform, she realized that they had many more sources of food than she.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

Living in nomadic groups, the men use handmade bows and arrows to hunt Cape buffalo, baboons and the rodent-like hyrax.

From The Wall Street Journal May 9, 2026

The zoo in Nuremberg had announced plans to kill some Guinea baboons last year, after its population exceeded 40 - more than the 25 that could be housed by a complex completed in 2009.

From BBC Jul. 29, 2025

That would mean they had more neurons than baboons, with perhaps even enough intelligence to use tools — the T. rex's notoriously tiny arms notwithstanding.

From Salon May 4, 2024

Giraffes have roughly the same number of neurons that crows and baboons have, Holtz pointed out, but they don’t use tools or display complex social behavior in the way those species do.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 29, 2024

It all worked very well, except when the baboons stole the crops of other people.

From "The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa" by Alexander Mccall Smith




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