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Hamadryas baboon (Papio hamadryas) | |
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Genus: | Papio Erxleben, 1777
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Baboons are monkeys of the genus Papio. They are one of the largest kinds of monkey. It is an intelligent Old World monkey. It lives on the ground in groups called troops. Troops can be as small as a few baboons or as big as several hundred members.