The Yellow Baboon

The Yellow Baboon is also known as the Savanna Baboon, or rather it is a subspecies of the Savanna Baboon, along with the olive Baboon, the Guinea Baboon, and the Chacma Baboon. The Yellow Baboon is a large monkey with a head like a dog, which is where the name cynocephalus is derived from "cyno" for dog and "cephalus" for head. The male weighs between 59 and 97 pounds, and the female between 31 and 37 pounds. The coat is coarse and short in the yellow baboon. The yellow baboon is the most widespread of the African primates and is found throughout the savanna and arid zones wherever they can find water and secure sleeping places in trees or cliffs. The species has extended its range recently because of the destruction of the primary forest, agricultural expansion, and local extinction of predators. The yellow baboon is found primarily in Kenya (Estes wildlife@exis.net).

Jeanne and Stuart Altmann have studied the baboons in their native habitat and have discovered a number o

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study, and as a result there are fewer than a dozen long-term studies for any primate in the world, let alone the baboon. this makes the Altmann study all the more important. Aside from the inherent problem in studying primates where they live, there are also political instabilities in Africa that prevent more long-term examinations. The Altmann study shows how important a longitudinal project can be and the important information it can provide. Stuart Altmann undertook a study beginning in 1974 of the dietary habits of the yellow baboon. the baboon is labeled an omnivore, but Altmann found that baboons show great selectivity in what they eat. The array of what is ripe and flowering changes frequently in the fertile region of Amboseli, but the baboons feed only on the most nutritious part of the most nutritious plants available at any given time. This is true even though Altmann could find no evidence of social teaching. altmann also tracked baboons into adulthood and found that there was a link between the quality of the diet of a weanling and the lifetime biological fitness of that animal, as measured by such factors as life span and the number of offspring. the correlation was strong, and the diet of weanlings was fo
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