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olive_baboon

olive baboon

English

Noun

olive baboon (plural olive baboons)

  1. A subspecies of savannah baboon, Papio hamadryas anubis, found in highland areas of East Africa.
    • 2016, Richard Smyth, ‘Bird's-Eye Watching’, Literary Review, November:
      A study of Kenyan olive baboon troops by Margaret Crofoot and her team at the University of California, Davis, considered first the patterns made on a map by the animals' movements […].