#0512 · 🦊 mammals

Yellow Baboon

🇳🇱 Gele Baviaan ·Papio cynocephalus

LCleast concern 🦊 Mammals 📍 outside Europe

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Biray PINAR · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Irene Domhoff · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Nik Borrow · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © mikeloomis · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Hélène Maire · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Distrito de Mangochi, Malaui:© Edgar Castañeda · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Mocímboa da Praia, Mozambique:© Miguel A. Casado · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Shimba Hills, Kwale, Coast, KE:© sandr4 · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Rufiji, Tanzania:© heliastes21 · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Ngauma, Mozambique:© Fred Berrington · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The yellow baboon ( Papio cynocephalus ) is a baboon in the family of Old World monkeys. The species epithet literally means "dog-head" in Greek, due to the shape of its muzzle and head. It has a slim body with long arms and legs and a yellowish-brown hair. It resembles the Chacma baboon, but is smaller and its muzzle is not as elongated. The hairless face is black, framed with white sideburns. Males can grow to about 84 cm,...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 1,756iNaturalist 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.
1,756 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named in 1766 (260 years ago).