Hamadryas Baboon — printable fact sheet

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• Male Hamadryas Baboons are known to herd and control groups of females, using visual displays and herding behaviors rarely seen in other primates.
• Male hamadryas are roughly twice the size of females and grow a dramatic silver cape; females are brown and unmaned, so the sexes look almost like different species. Egyptian statues frequently show baboons in a squatting posture with forelimbs raised at sunrise, a real hamadryas behaviour that Egyptians read as worship of the rising sun. Kummer's Ethiopian experiments, in which he introduced strange females to males, remain among the most elegant field manipulations ever performed on a wild primate.