baboon

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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

“They were showing Ridley the baboon because it was an interesting anatomical structure,” Bakowski recalls.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2024

In this study, the researchers examined a collection of baboon mummies from the ancient Egyptian site of Gabbanat el-Qurud, the so-called Valley of the Monkeys on the west bank of Luxor.

From Science Daily • Dec. 6, 2023

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

A rat watched them from a crumbled hole by a light; a scorpion danced from under their feet; a huge baboon spider squatted in a crack with its fangs resting on the edge.

From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer