Kinda baboon

The Kinda baboon, Papio kindae, is a baboon of the miombo woodlands of Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Zambia, and possibly western Tanzania. It was once counted as a subspecies of the yellow baboon and is now given full species rank under the phylogenetic species concept. The animal takes its name from the town of Kinda in the south of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where the type specimen was found. It is golden in colour, lightly built and lanky, with softer and longer fur than other baboons, a shorter snout and pink rings around the eyes. It is the smallest of the baboons, and the difference in size between males and females is less marked than in any other baboon. Troops are multi-male and can number more than a hundred. Kinda baboons are unusually docile and show strong male investment in friendships with females. They interbreed with yellow baboons and, in Kafue National Park, with chacma baboons.