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Chacma Baboon (Papio cynocephalus ursinus)

Baboons can live anywhere that there is food, water, and safe sleeping habitat. Males are larger than females. Males weigh between 25 to 45 kg and females weigh from 14 to 17 kg.
Baboons are active during daylight hours. They forage all day and at night climb to safe roosts, at the top of big trees, in order to escape the attentions of predators such as Leopards. Baboons live in troops of up to 100 individuals and can live for as long as 30 years.

Baboons feed on almost anything form fruits, roots and young shoots to young antelope as well as eggs and birds.

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