Mastodawn

Finally watching season 12 of Alone, one of my favorite TV series. Boy howdy, baboons are pretty scary, seemingly more worrisome than bears. #alone #baboons

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alone_(TV_series)

Alone (TV series) - Wikipedia

Your Autistic Life FR/EN/ES 3d ago

Peon A: "Sir, performing this plan would be akin to kissing baboons on the lips."

Boss: "Exactly! ... Now, I did not get here today by kissing baboons on the lips. No! They don't have adequate lips. It was macaques that I kissed on the lips. Those luscious lips are simply kissable."

Peon A: "Great!"

Peon B: "Super!"

(With apologies to the creators of The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin.)

#TheFallAndRiseOfReginaldPerrin #baboons #macaques #kissing #lips

Art History Animalia 6d ago

For #WorldBaboonDay :
Norbertine von Bresslern-Roth (Austrian, 1891-1978)
#Baboons c.1925
Woodcut print H 8.75 x W 8.1875 in.
V & A Museum E.1326-1925
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O763830/baboons-woodcut-bresslern-roth/
#WomenArtists

Rüdiger Benninghaus Oct 30

Jogging is the order of the day at the baboon rock in Cologne Zoo – young and old alike must all join in.
(October 2025)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
#Affen, #monkeys, #Paviane, #baboons, #animals, #Kölner_Zoo

earthling Oct 23

Monkey circus

Photograph: Kalin Botev

#photography
#monkeys
#baboons

Christian Dannenberg Oct 19

Kenia & Tansania Favoritenfotos Part 19
Paviane in ihrer vollen Bandbreite, vom fürsorglichen Muttertier bis zu neugierigen Jungtieren. Intelligent, sozial und ausdrucksstark.

#naturephotos #wildlifephotographer #baboons

Laura Scrimshaw Oct 10

Frightened but Fierce Mother Baboon

A very large troop of over 100 baboons had come to a watering hole. They were disconcertingly humanlike. Parents were playing with kids, couples were lounging together, and young adults were flirting to various degrees of success. The gathering seemed jubilant and I was enthralled watching.

Suddenly, two terrified screams rang out: a large baboon was chasing and attacking this mother in an attempt to kill her suckling baby. Male baboons who join a troop may seek higher status by mating with a powerful baboon’s partner, usurping that baboon’s position. Killing the baby stops the mother's lactation cycle and ovulation can begin.

Each of the male’s vicious attacks met with ferocious response from the mom, shrieks from the baby, and some tenuous backup from other males, who seemed to want to help but were unsure of what to do. I assume that baboons have politics too, and fighting a high status male may not be the way to go. In this way, they were disconcertingly human-like too.

The happy news is that when the troop finally moved on, mom and baby were alive and well. I’m still rooting for them from afar and hope the babe is doing okay!

Mama bears may be tough cookies, but don't ever mess with a mama baboon.
#zimbabwe #Hwange #Hwangenationalpark #nature #natur #naturephotography #wildlifeprotection #wildlife #wildlifephotography #africa #zimbabwe #wildlifeconservation #nationalgeographic #natgeo #natgeonature #mammals #ethicalnaturephotography #conservation #ethicalwildlifephotography #primates #savannah #baboons #Chacma

Lukas VFN 🇪🇺Sep 29

Mushrooms may have been part of early human diets: Primate study explores who eats what and when
https://phys.org/news/2025-09-mushrooms-early-human-diets-primate.html

#Mycophagy in #Primates of the Issa Valley, #Tanzania: Theresa Schulze et al. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.72000

"#Mushrooms were seasonally important for red-tailed #monkeys, #chimpanzees, becoming a fall-back food when fruit was scarce... For #baboons, mushrooms were a preferred food, with #fungi forming more than a tenth of their diet despite being available for only half the year."

Ivan Slavulj Sep 2

Baboons - interesting fact / Babuni - interesantna činjenica

#Baboons 🐒 have large hairless pads on their buttocks that provide cushioning for sitting 🪑.

#Babuni 🐵 imaju velike jastučiće bez dlake na zadnjicama koji im pružaju udobnost pri sedenju 💺.

https://youtube.com/shorts/FoR1QIfy2Jw?si=IRZeR4P6vfERR-sl

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Dragofix Aug 31

Cape Town faces backlash over proposal to kill baboons https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/08/cape-town-faces-backlash-over-proposal-to-kill-baboons/

#AnimalRights #wildlife #baboons #CapeTown

Cape Town faces backlash over proposal to kill baboons

In Cape Town, South Africa, an ongoing conflict between people and baboons has escalated to the point that local authorities are considering culling 117 animals from four troops, roughly a quarter of the local population. The 45-kilogram (100-pound) primates sometimes raid homes for food and have injured people, but local conservationists argue killing them isn’t […]

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