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baboon
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ba·boon
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n.
a large Old World ground-dwelling monkey (Papio, Mandrillus, and other genera, family Cercopithecidae) with a long doglike snout and large teeth. Species include the drill and mandrill.
∎
an ugly or uncouth person.
ORIGIN: Middle English: from Old French babuin or medieval Latin babewynus, perhaps from Old French baboue ‘grimace.’
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 "Cape Times (South Africa)")
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Baboons are atrocious house guests, but they are wildlife we should treasure.(News)
Newspaper article from: Cape Times (South Africa); 3/20/2009; 700+ words
; ...roadside to attract baboons so that their clients...have a ready-made baboon picnic to photograph...strengthen and expand the baboon monitors. This is...way of keeping the baboons out of houses and...behaviour of the baboons that they become...dramatically reduce baboon-human ...
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 "Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)")
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BABOONS AND MORALITY.(Main)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 7/25/1992; 700+ words
; ...moral value of a baboon and a human? People are moral agents; baboons are not. If one...with the use of a baboon as the source of...not all that many baboons around who live in...to benefit from a baboon transplant if the...there are so few baboons now living in breeding...
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Baboons Show Hints of Abstract Thought
News Wire article from: AP Online; 10/14/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...the findings. ``The baboon's ability to match...researchers showed baboons, one male and one female...that were important to baboons' lives. ``The learning...pictures of the foods that baboons eat, pictures of different members of the baboon troop, pictures of different...
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Baboons, scholars, and parliamentarians.(intergenerational social culture)
Magazine article from: The Beaver: Exploring Canada's History; 8/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...troop of Kenyan baboons. ("I had never...become a savanna baboon when I grew up...Sapolsky loved "his" baboons, and they taught him much about baboon behaviour and physiology...behaviour of this baboon troop is by its history. Baboons may not have the...
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Baboons On the Rampage, Quranic Student in Barajally Seriously Injured.
News Wire article from: Africa News Service; 6/9/2003; 700+ words
; ...from atop nearby trees. The baboons reportedly sank teeth in Burama...incident in CRD South, wild baboons killed six goats near the village...with a view to stopping the baboon invasion. On April 18, following...one hundred and fifty (150) baboons. One man from the village...
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Baboons Demonstrate Ability To Learn Complex Mental Task
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 10/15/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...colleagues had to coach the baboons. The scientists sat the animals...flashed before them and gave the baboons a reward -- a banana pellet, the equivalent of candy for a baboon -- every time they made the...thousands of lessons, the baboons eventually managed to get the...
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Baboon fathers really do care about their kids; NSF-funded study suggests paternal care may be ancient trait in primates.
M2 Presswire; 9/10/2003; 700+ words
; ...females and immature baboons is rather loose by primate...means your average male baboon has much less certainty...runs so strongly through baboons suggests that such care...remains unclear exactly how baboon fathers identify their...fertile period with the baboons born soon thereafter...
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Cape baboons shot and maimed in war of attrition with human neighbors
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 6/20/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...stick-wielding baboon "monitor" finally...has named all the baboons in the area. Trethowan...reduce the number of baboons killed from 21 in...reels off a list of baboon victims, who have...things apart." The baboons are officially a...are moving into a baboon hotspot _ are advised...
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Baboon dies of human tuberculosis.(News)
Newspaper article from: Cape Argus (South Africa); 9/18/2007; 700+ words
; ...paralysis in the young baboon, Marcus, that was put...warned that, rather than baboons being viewed as a health...that Marcus, a research baboon, had been poisoned and...routes in both humans and baboons," he warned. The TB...Van Helden said the baboon had probably been infected...
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Baboon blasted with a /.22 pistol; Illegal attacks on the rise in Welcome Glen.(News)
Newspaper article from: Cape Argus (South Africa); 3/24/2009; 700+ words
; ...volunteer work for baboon conservation and management company Baboon Matters, said they...routine X-rays on any baboons brought in for treatment...critically injured baboon and he said: 'Oh...believe that shooting baboons discouraged the animals...
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Baboons
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...sleep in groups. Male baboons are nearly twice the...The common savanna baboon ( Papio cynocephalus...South Africa. Savanna baboons eat grass, fruit, seeds...species. A troop of baboons can range in number from...availability of food. The baboon troop consists of related...
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"Baby Fae" and the Baboon Heart
Book article from: American Decades
...died with the heart of a baboon pumping blood through her body. The baboon heart experiment offered hope...successful transplant from a baboon promised a new life for Baby...between species) he chose baboons because of their biological...
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baboon
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...subspecies, like the hamadryas baboon ( Papio hamadryas hamadryas...highly developed social order. Baboons are subtle, intelligent animals...Ethiopia is closely related to the baboon. It has a bright pink face...dwellers, and the mangabeys. Baboons are classified in the phylum...
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baboon watch
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
baboon watch, the unfortunate person detailed to remain on deck in harbour to watch over...The term is associated with the days of square-rigged sailing ships, and the baboon was usually one of the apprentices carried on board.
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Primates
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...rhizomes, tubers, corms) are paramount in baboon foraging. These parts are modified stems...neotropical monkeys), grass (for gelada baboons), and seeds (for saki monkeys) are...occurs at significant rates only among baboons ( Papio species), neotropical capuchin...
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