#0297 · 🦊 mammals

Olive Baboon

🇳🇱 Anubisbaviaan ·Papio anubis

LCleast concern 🦊 Mammals 📍 outside Europe

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what is it?

The olive baboon ( Papio anubis ), also called the Anubis baboon , is a member of the family Cercopithecidae (Old World monkeys). The species is the most wide-ranging of all baboons, being found in 25 countries throughout Africa, extending from Mali eastward to Ethiopia and Tanzania. Isolated populations are also present in some mountainous regions of the Sahara. It inhabits savannahs, steppes, and forests. The common name is derived from its coat color, which is a shade of...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 7,129iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
7,129 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by René Lesson in 1827 (199 years ago).