• Question: Does every species of baboons have a special trait just for that certain species?

    Asked by radaboy to Suzanne on 18 Jun 2013.
    • Photo: Suzanne Harvey

      Suzanne Harvey answered on 18 Jun 2013:


      All of the species are different! I work with olive baboons, so the other species aren’t my speciality, but I know that Hamadryas baboons have totally different behaviour. Instead of living in a social group with lots of males and females like olive baboons, hamadryas baboons have groups with one powerful male and a group of females instead. They also look very different, Hamadryas males have a big mane like a lion!

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