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Yellow Baboon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Yellow Baboon ( Papio cynocephalus ) is a baboon from the Old World monkey family. Cynocephalus literally means "dog-head" in Greek due to the shape of its muzzle and head. It has a slim bod...
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Wild yellow baboon males have an average height of 1200 mm (3.94 ft) and weigh 25.8 kg (56.9 lb) while females measure 976 mm (3.20 ft) and weigh only 11.0 kg (24.3 lb), on average (Altmann et al. 1993). Variation in length and sharpness of canine teeth is also seen among males and females.
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pin.primate.wisc.edu/factsheets/entry/yellow_baboon
pin.primate.wisc.edu/factsheets/entry/yellow_baboon
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Primate Factsheets; Image Gallery ... Papio cynocephalus yellow baboon; Photo credit: Kathryn L. Rasmussen ... Return to last page viewed...
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ANIMAL BYTES - Yellow Baboon...Find quick information and fun facts about animals. ... A baboon group's hierarchy is such a serious matter, some sub-species have developed interesting behaviors intended to avoid confrontation and retaliation. For example, males have frequently been documented using infants as a kind...
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The behavior of the yellow baboon, Papio cynocephalus. ... The yellow baboon gives birth to a single offspring. During estrus the perineum of the female swells up and turns pink. Females generally have 1-3 consorts from whom she chooses to mate with. presenting: This behavior is preformed by the female to elicit copulation...
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www.theprimata.com/papio_cynocephalus.html
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Getting and keeping the right friends in yellow baboon society can have strong implications for maintenance of rank, as well as keeping or losing one’s fetus. One might therefore expect that female baboons would maintain their closest ties with females of similar rank.
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The two most common baboons occur in East Africa, the olive baboon and the yellow baboon. The larger and darker olive baboon is found in Uganda, west and central Kenya and northern Tanzania. Smaller, more slender and lighter in color, the yellow baboon inhabits southern and coastal Kenya and Tanzania.
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www.awf.org/content/wildlife/detail/baboon
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To elucidate MHC class I expression and variation within Papio subspecies and to further investigate the evolution of A and B loci in Old World primates, we have characterized the expressed class I repertoire of the yellow baboon (Papio hamadryas cynocephalus) by cDNA library screening.
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www.jimmunol.org/cgi/content/full/166/6/3983
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