The common names of the five species of baboons are the hamadryas, the guinea, the olive, the yellow, and the chacma baboons. Digit ratios and dominance in female baboons papio hamadryas and papio ursinus article pdf available in international journal of primatology 336 december 2012 with 191 reads. A large baboon, papio hamadryas, from northern africa and arabia, that was sacred in ancient egypt. Summary hamadryas baboon papio hamadryas fact sheet. Hamadryas, papio hamadryas, also called sacred baboon, or arabian baboon, large, powerful monkey of the plains and openrock areas of the red sea coast, both in africa eritrea, the sudan and on the opposite coast in yemen and saudi arabia. Group compositional changes impact the social and feeding. Pdf digit ratios and dominance in female baboons papio.
Thus, the potential hybridization of two newly split lineages, even if they belong to two different genera, should not be so shocking. Papio hamadryas is found on the african continent in the area of the southern red sea, in ethiopia, somalia, and eritrea. Group compositional changes impact the social and feeding behaviors of captive hamadryas baboons papio hamadryas hamadryas amy m. This species also occurs in the palearctic region, in saudi arabia and yemen. Program in animal behavior and conservation, department of psychology, hunter college of the city university of new york, new york, new york. Baboons are primates comprising the genus papio, one of the 23 genera of old world monkeys. Even more distant crosses between papio hamadryas and macaca mulatta have been purposely produced in captivity, but the resulting offspring, while healthy, were infertile. Baboons have existed for at least two million years. Hamadryas baboons papio hamadryas are the only baboon taxon to disperse out of africa and still inhabit arabia.
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