| Hamadryas baboon | |
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| Female (left) and male (right) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Suborder: | Haplorhini |
| Infraorder: | Simiiformes |
| Family: | Cercopithecidae |
| Genus: | Papio |
| Species: | P. hamadryas[1]
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| Binomial name | |
| Papio hamadryas[1] | |
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| Synonyms | |
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Simia hamadryas Linnaeus, 1758 | |
The hamadryas baboon (Papio hamadryas /ˌhæməˈdraɪ.əs/;[4] Tigrinya: ጋውና gawina;[5] Arabic: الرُبَّاح, Al Robah) is a species of baboon within the Old World monkey family. It is the northernmost of all the baboons, being native to the Horn of Africa and the southwestern region of the Arabian Peninsula. These regions provide habitats with the advantage for this species of fewer natural predators than central or southern Africa where other baboons reside. The hamadryas baboon was a sacred animal to the ancient Egyptians and appears in various roles in ancient Egyptian religion, hence its alternative name of 'sacred baboon'.[6]
- ^ Groves 2005
- ^ Gippoliti 2019
- ^ Linnaeus, Carl (1758). Systema naturæ. Regnum animale (10th ed.). Sumptibus Guilielmi Engelmann. p. 27. Retrieved 19 November 2012.
- ^ "hamadryas baboon". CollinsDictionary.com. HarperCollins.
- ^ Aerts 2019
- ^ Swedell 2015