Yellow Baboon
Conservation status
Least concern
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. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 498 × 599 pixel Image in higher resolution (777 × 935 pixel, file size: 120 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Papio cynocephalus Photo taken at the University of Dar es Salaam in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. ... The conservation status of a species is an indicator of the likelihood of that species continuing to survive either in the present day or the future. ... Image File history File links Status_iucn2. ... Least Concern (LC) is an IUCN category assigned to species or lower taxa which do not qualify for any other category. ... Scientific classification or biological classification is a method by which biologists group and categorize species of organisms. ... Animalia redirects here. ... Typical Classes See below Chordates (phylum Chordata) are a group of animals that includes the vertebrates, together with several closely related invertebrates. ... Subclasses Allotheria* Order Multituberculata (extinct) Order Volaticotheria (extinct) Order Palaeoryctoides (extinct) Order Triconodonta (extinct) Order Docodonta (extinct) Prototheria Order Monotremata Theria Infraclass Trituberculata (extinct) Infraclass Marsupialia Infraclass Eutheria The mammals are the class of vertebrate animals characterized by the production of milk in females for the nourishment of young, from... Families 15, See classification A primate (L. prima, first) is any member of the biological order Primates, the group that contains all the species commonly related to the lemurs, monkeys, and apes, with the latter category including humans. ... Subfamilies Cercopithecinae - 11 genera Colobinae - 9 genera The Old World monkeys or Cercopithecidae are a group of primates, falling in the superfamily Cercopithecoidea in the clade Catarrhini. ... Species Papio hamadryas Papio papio Papio anubis Papio cynocephalus Papio ursinus The Baboon is the largest non-hominid member of the primate order. ... In biology, binomial nomenclature is the formal method of naming species. ... Carolus Linnaeus, also known after his ennoblement as  , (May 23, 1707[1] – January 10, 1778), was a Swedish botanist, physician and zoologist[2] who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of nomenclature. ... Type species Simia hamadryas Linnaeus, 1758 Species Papio hamadryas Papio papio Papio anubis Papio cynocephalus Papio ursinus The five baboon species are some of the largest non-hominid members of the primate order; only the Mandrill and the Drill are larger. ... Subfamilies Cercopithecinae - 11 genera Colobinae - 10 genera The Old World monkeys or Cercopithecidae are a group of primates, falling in the superfamily Cercopithecoidea in the clade Catarrhini. ...

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. Binomial name Papio ursinus (Kerr, 1792) The Chacma Baboon (Papio ursinus) is, like all other baboons, from the Old World monkey family. ...

The Yellow Baboon inhabits savannas 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. A world map showing the continent of Africa Africa is the worlds second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. ... A diurnal animal (dī-ŭrnəl) is an animal that is active during the daytime and sleeps during the night. ... Animal environments are classified as either aquatic (water), terrestrial (land), or amphibious (water and land). ... Omnivores are organisms that consume both plants and animals. ...

There are three subspecies of the yellow baboon:

• Papio cynocephalus cynocephalus (typical Yellow Baboon)
• Papio cynocephalus ibeanus (Ibean Baboon)
• Papio cynocephalus kindae (Kinda Baboon)

 Impala's hooves often turn up unexpected delicacies like fan-tailed scorpians when the group is foraging for food. 

Trinomial name Papio cynocephalus kindae Lönnberg, 1919 The Kinda Baboon (Papio cynocephalus kindae) is a semi-terrestrial subspecies of baboon present in the Miombo woodlands of Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia, and possibly western Tanzania. ...

External links

• Primate Info Net Papio cynocephalus Factsheets

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