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Chacma baboon
Papio ursinus
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Field Notes
Description:
The chacma baboon is also known as the Cape baboon and is located primarily in southern Africa (ranging between South Africa to to Angola, Zambia and Mozambique). The subspecies are divided across this range. The Cape chacma is found in southern South Africa; the gray-footed chacma, is present from northern South Africa, through the Okavango Delta in Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, to southwest Zambia; and the Ruacana chacma is found in northern Namibia and southern Angola.
Habitat:
The chacma baboon inhabits a wide array of habitats including woodland, savanna, steppes, and subdesert, from the grassy alpine slopes of the Drakensberg to the Kalahari desert. I took these photos in the Blyde river canyon in Mpumalanga, which forms the northern part of the Drakensberg escarpment.
Notes:
The chacma baboon is omnivorous with a preference for fruits, while also eating insects, seeds, grass and smaller vertebrate animals. It is generally a scavenger when it comes to game meat, and rarely engages in hunting large animals. Info from the wikipedia page.
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