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Papio hamadryas Papio papio Papio anubis Papio cynocephalus Papio ursinus The baboons are some of the largest non-hominid members of the primate order; only the Mandrill and the Drill are larger. In modern scientific use, only members of the genus Papio are called baboons, but previously the closely related Gelada (genus Theropithecus) and two species of Mandrill and Drill (genus Mandrillus) were grouped in the same genus, and these monkeys a ...

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baboon: Encyclopedia - Olive Baboon The Olive Baboon (Papio anubis), also called the Anubis Baboon, is a baboon from the Old World monkey family. Its name comes from the Egyptian God Anubis, which was often represented with dog head and resembled so the dog-like muzzle of these animals. Olive Baboons have the largest range area of all baboons, extending south from Mali to Ethiopia and to Tanzania, isolated populations are also in some mountainous regions of the Sahara ...

baboon: Encyclopedia II - Baboon - Classification

There are five recognised species of Papio, although there is some disagreement about whether they are really full species or subspecies. They are P. ursinus (Chacma Baboon, found in southern Africa), P. papio (Western or Guinea Baboon, found in Senegal, The Gambia, Guinea), P. hamadryas (Hamadryas Baboon, found in north-east Africa and into south-western Arabia), P. anubis (Olive Baboon, found in central African savanna) and P. cynocephalus (Yellow Baboon, found in Angola, Zambia, Malawi, Tanzania, ...

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baboon: Encyclopedia - Hapi

Hapi was one of the Four sons of Horus depicted in funerary literature as protecting the throne of Ausare (Osiris) in the Underworld. Hapi is depicted as a baboon-headed mummified human on funerary furniture and especially the canopic jars that held the organs of the deceased (Hapi's jar held the lungs). Later Hermetic philosophers would equate Hapi with the element of air because of his association with the funerary protectress Nebet Het (Nephthys) and the East. See also. < ...

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baboon: Encyclopedia - Canopic jar

Among the ancient Egyptians, canopic jars were covered funerary vases, normally composed of clay, intended to keep the viscera of mummified corpses. All the viscera were not kept in a single canopic jar, but rather each organ in its own. In addition to hieroglyphs, figures of gods was often painted on the jars. These were the Four sons of Horus, the guardians of the organs: Imset (depicted as a human) was responsible for the liver; Hapi (a baboon) for the lungs; Duamutef (a jackal) for the stomach; Kebechsenef (a ...

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baboon: Encyclopedia - Cynocephaly

The condition of cynocephaly, having the head of a dog— or of a jackal— is familiar to anyone who has looked at Egyptian inscriptions. Cynocephalus is a Greek word for a sacred Egyptian baboon with the face of a dog. (Cynocephalus has been adopted by scientists as the genus name for an Asian arboreal gliding mammal also known as a Colugo.) In the Eastern Orthodox Church, which has not downgraded Saint Christopher, certain icons covertly identify him him with the head of a dog. The background to the dog-headed ...

baboon: Encyclopedia - Thoth

In Egyptian mythology, Thoth (also spelt Thot or Thout), pronounced "tot", is the Greek name given to Djehuty (also spelt Tahuti, Tehuti, Zehuti, Techu, Tetu) - the original pronunciation of his name is disputed, and may have been approximately Tee-HOW-ti -, who was originally the deification of the moon in the Ogdoad belief system. Initially, in that system, the moon had been seen to be the eye of Horus, the sky god, which had been semi-blinded (thus darker) in a fight against S ...

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baboon: Encyclopedia - Primate

A primate is any member of the biological order Primates, the group that contains all lemurs, monkeys, apes, and humans. The English singular primate is a back-formation from the Latin name Primates, which itself was the plural of the Latin primas ("one of the first, excellent, noble"). Colin Groves lists about 350 species of primates in Primate Taxonomy. All primates have five fingers (pentadactyly), a generalized dental pattern, and a primitive (unspecialized) body plan. Another disti ...

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baboon: Encyclopedia - Old World monkey

Cercopithecinae - 11 genera Colobinae - 9 genera The Old World monkeys or Cercopithecidae are a group of primates, falling in the superfamily Cercopithecoidea in the clade Catarrhini. From the point of view of superficial appearance, they are unlike apes in that most have tails (the family name means "tailed ape"), and unlike the New World monkeys in that their tails are never prehensile. Technically, the distinction of catarrhines from platyrrhines depends on the structure of the nose, and the distincti ...

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baboon: Encyclopedia II - Baboon - Society

Baboons live in hierarchical troops of 5 to 250 animals (50 or so is common), depending on specific circumstances, especially species and time of year. The structure within the troop varies considerably between Hamadryas Baboons and the remaining species, collectively referred to as savannah baboons: individual Hamadryas Baboon males maintain small harems, to which females from elsewhere in the troop are recruited while still to young to breed, while savannah baboons have a more open structure in which females tend to consort in matrilines, ...

List of Star Wars creatures - Fabools. These are green furred baboon-like creatures with four rear limbs and four front limbs. They live in the Dantarian savannahs on Dantooine. List of Star Wars creatures - Falumpaset. A large creature that lives on Naboo and can live in large herds. The Gungans domesticated many falumpasets for use as mounts and towing vehicles such as boomer wagons and catapults. See also:

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List of Star Wars creatures - Fabools. These are green furred baboon-like creatures with four rear limbs and four front limbs. They live in the Dantarian savannahs on Dantooine. List of Star Wars creatures - Falumpaset. A large creature that lives on Naboo and can live in large herds. The Gungans domesticated many falumpasets for use as mounts and towing vehicles such as boomer wagons and catapults. See also:

baboon: Encyclopedia II - Kaffir - Social use today

In South Africa, while the term is still seen as too wounding and offensive for appropriation by indigenous South Africans – "Kaffir" was used in 1995 as the title of a hit song by the Johannesburg Kwaito artist, Arthur Mafokate. The lyrics included a plea to white South Africans to drop the term from their vocabulary for good: "I don't come from the devil, don't call me a kaffir, you won't like it if I call you baboon". The word is also used to stinging effect in the title of Kaffir Boy, the autobiography of Ma ...

List of Star Wars creatures - Fabools. These are green furred baboon-like creatures with four rear limbs and four front limbs. They live in the Dantarian savannahs on Dantooine. List of Star Wars creatures - Falumpaset. A large creature that lives on Naboo and can live in large herds. The Gungans domesticated many falumpasets for use as mounts and towing vehicles such as boomer wagons and catapults. See also:

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List of Star Wars creatures - Hanadak. These creatures are like a cross between a bear and a baboon. They sleep during the winters on Hok and have a fierce temper. List of Star Wars creatures - Hawk-bat. Hawk-bats are purple or red creatures with a curved beak and leathery wings. They can be found on urbanised worlds like Coruscant and Taris. List of Star Wars creatures - Hive rats. The hive rat is a large mutated version of a rat that lives on Coruscant. See also:

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List of Star Wars creatures - Hanadak. These creatures are like a cross between a bear and a baboon. They sleep during the winters on Hok and have a fierce temper. List of Star Wars creatures - Hawk-bat. Hawk-bats are purple or red creatures with a curved beak and leathery wings. They can be found on urbanised worlds like Coruscant and Taris. List of Star Wars creatures - Hive rats. The hive rat is a large mutated version of a rat that lives on Coruscant. See also:

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