Yellow Baboon

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Yellow Baboon
Conservation status
Least concern (LR/lc)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Primates Family: Cercopithecidae Genus: Papio Species: P. cynocephalus
Binomial name
Papio cynocephalus (Linnaeus, 1766)

The Yellow Baboon (Papio cynocephalus) is a baboon from the Old World monkey family.

It has a slim body with long arms and legs and a yellowish-brown hair. It resembles the Chacma Baboon but is smaller and its muzzle is not as elongated. The hairless face is black, framed with white sideburns. Males can grow to about 84 cm, females to about 60 cm. It has a long tail which grows to be nearly as long as the body.

The Yellow Baboon inhabits savannahs and light forests in the eastern Africa, from Kenya and Tanzania to Zimbabwe and Botswana. It is diurnal, terrestrial, and lives in complex mixed gender social groups. It is omnivorous with a preference for fruits, but it also eats other plant parts as well as insects and small vertebrate animals.

There are three subspecies of the Yellow Baboon:

• Papio cynocephalus cynocephalus
• Papio cynocephalus ibeanus
• Papio cynocephalus kindae

[edit] References

• Butynski et al (2000). Papio cynocephalus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 12 May 2006.
• Groves, Colin (16 November 2005). Wilson, D. E., and Reeder, D. M. (eds) Mammal Species of the World, 3rd edition, Johns Hopkins University Press, 166. ISBN 0-801-88221-4.

[edit] External links

• Primate Info Net Papio cynocephalus Factsheets
• Yellow baboon photos and natural history