baboon

Example Sentences

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Local media outlets reported that those tracking it were armed with tranquiliser darts, while others were put on "baboon watch" shifts.

From BBC

Also symbolic were 12 baboons, one for each hour of the late king’s supposed transit through the netherworld.

From Washington Post

The virus has been shown to damage pig hearts transplanted into baboons, leading to the primates’ death.

From Science Magazine

The neuroscientist Sapolsky talks about his studies of rambunctious baboons in Kenya, mixed with lots of wry commentary and gentle humor that puts a smile on your face while you read.

From New York Times

These models — statistical systems powered by high-dimensional vectors, matrices multiplying layers upon layers of numbers — successfully matched the baboons’ performance but not the humans’; they failed to reproduce the regularity effect.

From New York Times