Hamadryas baboon

Hamadryas baboon
Female (left) and male (right)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Suborder: Haplorhini
Infraorder: Simiiformes
Family: Cercopithecidae
Genus: Papio
Species:
P. hamadryas[1]
Binomial name
Papio hamadryas[1]
Synonyms

Simia hamadryas Linnaeus, 1758

The hamadryas baboon (Papio hamadryas /ˌhæməˈdr.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]

  1. ^ Groves 2005
  2. ^ Gippoliti 2019
  3. ^ Linnaeus, Carl (1758). Systema naturæ. Regnum animale (10th ed.). Sumptibus Guilielmi Engelmann. p. 27. Retrieved 19 November 2012.
  4. ^ "hamadryas baboon". CollinsDictionary.com. HarperCollins.
  5. ^ Aerts 2019
  6. ^ Swedell 2015