Name
Baboon (Papio sp.)Diet
Equipped with a large set of canines, the baboon is a large primate that is mainly omnivorous. The baboon has a large and varied diet and ranges from grass, seeds, fruit, rhizomes, mushrooms, and eggs.
They also eat eggs, lizards, some insects, hares and sometimes prey on young antelopes and leopards found in South Africa. The Chacma baboon can virtually eat any part of a tree.
Where they are found
Baboons generally inhabit mountainous areas around South Africa. You can also find them in woodlands, semi-desert areas and sub alpine meadows found along the Drakensberg Mountains.
Preferring to spend time on the ground, baboons usually climb up trees for protection, food, sleeping or playing. They are also known to spend evenings among tall rocky outcrops. Two main species of baboon dominate Africa, the Chacma baboon from South Africa and the yellow baboon from East Africa.
What this means is that baboons have a band of dominant males that work cooperatively to defend the females in the troop and they thus share...
Baboons also dig through elephant dung to extract tasty morsels of fruit or seeds that have passed undigested through the elephants gut....
Charged by the artist’s passion for African wildlife and conservancy, this piece is sculpted around the human-like contemplation of the mo...