Yellow baboon

The yellow baboon (Papio cynocephalus) is a baboon of the Old World monkey family that lives in the savannas and light forests of eastern and southern Africa, from Kenya and Tanzania to Zimbabwe and Botswana. Its species name means dog-head in Greek, after the dog-like shape of its muzzle. It resembles the chacma baboon but is somewhat smaller and has a less elongated muzzle; males reach about 84 centimetres in body length and females about 60 centimetres. Yellow baboons are diurnal and terrestrial and live in complex mixed-sex troops of 8 to 200 animals. Like other baboons they are omnivores that prefer fruit but also eat leaves, seeds, grasses, bulbs, bark, fungi, insects, birds and small mammals. They live roughly 15 to 20 years in the wild, and some reach 30. The species is not listed as threatened, but farmers often treat it as a pest.