About:
Did you know these baboons are often found living on hillsides or in mountainous regions? Learn more about Hamadryas Baboons.
Care & Wellness:
The spacious rocky habitat for the baboons is ideal. It mirrors the cliff faces of their natural habitat and lets them show off their rock-climbing skills. The size allows multiple males to form “one-male units” (one male, a few females and their offspring), replicating their dynamic social system within a large, multi-generational group.
Behavior:
- Hamadryas baboons have a unique social structure. Several family groups will form a clan; clans gather to forms bands; bands come together to form troops.
- The basis for family groups is one male with several females.
- They may migrate seasonally, moving into mountain areas during the wet season.
Endangered Status
- Extinct in Wild (EW)
- Critically Endangered (CR)
- Endangered (EN)
- Vulnerable (VU)
- Near Threatened (NT)
- Least Concern (LC)
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Fun Facts:
- These baboons are often found living on hillsides or in mountainous regions.
- Females are much smaller than males.
- They often sleep on cliffs at night. Occasionally they will sleep in trees.
- Their skins were once used in ceremonial cloaks.
