#0258 · 🦊 mammals

Chacma Baboon

🇳🇱 Beerbaviaan ·Papio ursinus

LCleast concern 🦊 Mammals 📍 outside Europe

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

what is it?

The Chacma baboon ( Papio ursinus ), also known as the Cape baboon , is, like all other baboons, from the Old World monkey family. It is one of the largest of all monkeys.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 11,937iNaturalist 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.
11,937 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Robert Kerr in 1792 (234 years ago).