Olive BaboonΒ (Papio anubis), family Cercopithecidae, found across central Africa
Old world monkey.
This species has the widest range of any species of baboon, found in a variety of grasslands and forest types, found in 25 countries.
Males have a modest mane and are heavier than the females.
The species sometimes hybridizes with the hamadryas baboon in Ethiopia, as well as the yellow baboonΒ and theΒ Guinea baboon.
This species lives in complex hierarchical social structures with, with a few males and many females and their offspring.
Olive baboons are highly omnivorous.
photographs by Mees Kuiper & Volodymyr Budiak
Baby eat the tasty berries!!! - photograph by MattieATH
A young male at Ngorongoro Conservation AreaΒ in Tanzania
photograph by Muhammad Mahdi Karim
photograph by SajjadFΒ
