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
A few of Bischoff’s early taxidermy pieces are still on display, including a dog, which looks more like a cross between a wolf and a baboon, dating to the 1920s.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2025
The authors note that similar conditions are seen in baboon remains from two other sites of similar age, Saqqara and Tuna el-Gebel, suggesting a fairly consistent mode of captive keeping in all three sites.
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
This creature, which had never before been seen in that place, was the creature which people now call the baboon.
From "The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa" by Alexander Mccall Smith
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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
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
Goodall, in removing the barriers, raised primatology to new heights, opening the way for research on subjects ranging from political coalitions among baboons to the use of deception by an array of primates.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2025
Zoos in other countries that baboons had previously been sent to had also reached capacity and contraception measures had failed to slow the population growth, the zoo said.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2025
Plants she could count on earlier were ravaged by baboons.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
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