Group compositional changes impact the social and feeding. Even more distant crosses between papio hamadryas and macaca mulatta have been purposely produced in captivity, but the resulting offspring, while healthy, were infertile. Papio hamadryas is found on the african continent in the area of the southern red sea, in ethiopia, somalia, and eritrea. The common names of the five species of baboons are the hamadryas, the guinea, the olive, the yellow, and the chacma baboons. 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. Baboons have existed for at least two million years. Program in animal behavior and conservation, department of psychology, hunter college of the city university of new york, new york, new york. Group compositional changes impact the social and feeding behaviors of captive hamadryas baboons papio hamadryas hamadryas amy m. Papio hamadryas is found on the african continent in the area of the southern red sea, in ethiopia, somalia, djibouti and eritrea. The latter populations often occur in close association with humans, and.
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