He also observed chacma baboons at length and he was the father of the scientific study of the behaviour of primates. |
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During 23 months we observed 110 inter-group interactions involving four groups of chacma baboons in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. |
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The chacma baboon is a frugivorous species, but leaves also constitute a major part of the diet. |
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In her article, however, she includes the photograph of a young chacma baboon. |
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This proves, he says, that I am less of a chacma baboon than some other ethologists I could name. |
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But the friendships they are concerned with are not those that develop among humans, but rather those of the chacma baboons that inhabit southern Africa's Zambezi region. |
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The chacma, which lives in southern Africa south of the Zambezi River, is brown or blackish in colour. |
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Baboons, which are the bane of farmers whose crops they damage, include the Rhodesian and yellow species, as well as the chacma, the largest known baboon species. |
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