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Baboons
Papio
Baboons are African and Arabian Old World monkeys belonging to the genus Papio, part of the subfamily Cercopithecinae. The five species are some of the largest non-hominoid members of the primate order; only the mandrill and the drill are larger. Previously, the closely related gelada (genus Theropithecus) and the two species (mandrill and drill) of genus Mandrillus were grouped in the same genus, and these Old World monkeys are still often referred to as baboons in...
7 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 6 known species
Chacma Baboon
speciesPapio ursinus
Olive Baboon
speciesPapio anubis
Yellow Baboon
speciesPapio cynocephalus
Hamadryas Baboon
speciesPapio hamadryas
Guinea Baboon
speciesPapio papio
Kinda Baboon
speciesPapio kindae
Olive × Yellow Baboon
hybridPapio anubis × cynocephalus
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Jean Baptiste Audebert — Histoire naturelle des singes et des makis (1800)
Jean Baptiste Audebert · 1800 · p.89
Jean Baptiste Audebert — Histoire naturelle des singes et des makis (1800)
Jean Baptiste Audebert · 1800 · p.95
Jean Baptiste Audebert — Histoire naturelle des singes et des makis (1800)
Jean Baptiste Audebert · 1800 · p.92
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Papio in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 43534.