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baboon

bəˈbun
WordNet
A black Barzilian monkey (possibly a black spider monkey) and two baboons. Numbered top right: 2. With inscriptions in Latin. Part of the second album with drawings of four-legged friends. Second of twelve albums with drawings of animals, birds and plants known around 1600, commissioned by Emperor Rudolf II. With explanation in Dutch, Latin and French.
A black Barzilian monkey (possibly a black spider monkey) and two baboons. Numbered top right: 2. With inscriptions in Latin. Part of the second album with drawings of four-legged friends. Second of twelve albums with drawings of animals, birds and plants known around 1600, commissioned by Emperor Rudolf II. With explanation in Dutch, Latin and French.
  1. (n) baboon
    large terrestrial monkeys having doglike muzzles
Illustrations
Sheet with 7 representations of monkeys, including chimpanzees, orangutans and baboons. A caption below each image. Numbered top right: No. 64.
Sheet with 7 representations of monkeys, including chimpanzees, orangutans and baboons. A caption below each image. Numbered top right: No. 64.
Two animals, a large ox or buffalo and a smaller dog-like animal, with a jumping or dancing figure. Petroglyph of the San, who live behind the Snow Mountain (Noa Gore).
Copies of an ox, a baboon and a man after San petroglyphs
Cape baboon (Papio ursinus)
Cape Baboon (Papio ursinus), eating something on a hill, in the background a few warriors on a rock formation; with scale in Rhenish foot and thumb.
Papio ursinus (Cape baboon)
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Interesting fact
A male baboon can kill a leopard.
  1. Baboon
    (Zoöl) One of the Old World Quadrumana, of the genera Cynocephalus and Papio; the dog-faced ape. Baboons have dog-like muzzles and large canine teeth, cheek pouches, a short tail, and naked callosities on the buttocks. They are mostly African. See Mandrill, and Chacma, and Drill an ape.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Interesting fact
A baboon called Jackie became a private in the South African army in World War I.
  1. (n) baboon
    A quadrumanous animal of the old world, of the subfamily Cynopithecinæ, and especially of either of the genera Cynocephalus (or Papio) and Mandrilla (or Mormon). The baboon has a large prominent muzzle and a low facial angle, constituting a physiognomy to which the term “dog-faced” has been applied. It has cheek-pouches, large canine teeth, tail usually short (whence the term “pig-tailed” applied to some), and large bare ischial callosities, often gayly colored. Its fore and hind limbs are proportionate, so that the animal can go upon all-fours like ordinary quadrupeds, or sit upright like most other monkeys. Baboons are generally large, heavy animals, some equaling a mastiff in size and weight, and are among the most sullen, intractable, ferocious, and filthy brutes of the order to which they belong. Most of them are African, and they are usually gregarious, going in large troops, and feeding on fruits, roots, birds' eggs, insects, etc. Among those which have special names are the anubis, chacma, mandrill, drill, etc. Some of the Quadrumana which belong technically to the same group as the baboons do not usually take the name, as the black ape of Celebes, Cynopithecus niger, and the Barbary ape, Inuus ecaudatus; while some monkeys of other groups are occasionally called baboons.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Baboon
    ba-bōōn′ a species of large monkey, having a long face, dog-like tusks, large lips, and a short tail
Quotations
Ezra Pound
There once was a brainy baboon who always breathed down a bassoon for he said, It appears that in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune.
Ezra Pound
Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare it is simply disgraceful.
Aldous Huxley
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary OE. babewin, baboin, fr. F. babouin, or LL. babewynus,. Of unknown origin; cf. D. baviaan, G. pavian, baboon, F. babine, lip of ape, dogs, etc., dial. G. bäppe, mouth

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary Fr. babouin; remoter origin unknown.

Usage in the news

Baboons choosy about dinner partners, study finds. latimes.com

0 Chacma baboons are picky about whom they forage with, according to a study published in the American Naturalist. latimes.com

NATURE Clever Monkeys Baboon Hunts Baby Gazelle PBS. iptv.org

A baboon monkey (Papio hamadryas), born in captivity two months ago, remains with its parents at the zoo in Cali, Valle del Cauca department, Colombia, on January 11, 2012. minnesota.publicradio.org

Baboons can distinguish between written words and gibberish. topnews.com

Baboons live in large harems, and there's a robust population now, even though it had dwindled in the 1970s. discovermagazine.com

PREMENSTRUAL PROBLEMS SEEM TO BESET BABOONS. nytimes.com

A study in baboons reinforces what's been found in humans—higher social status is linked to better health. mensfitness.com

Now they look like a factory bike serviced by an uncoordinated baboon. dirtrider.com

And you know uncoordinated baboon's won't give good pit board signals, or pack your gate well. dirtrider.com

National Geographic's 'Big Baboon House' TV series blasted as ' unethical ' (VIDEO). globalpost.com

Ass Baboons of Venus Low Rent Insect Spanking the Species Stingy Banana Records. kfjc.org

Gut -busting food, rides, baboons join state fair. timesleader.com

LITTLE ROCK (AP) — Fried Kool-Aid on a stick, livestock shows, carnival games and a troupe of performing baboons await patrons of the Arkansas State Fair, organizers said of the annual event, which opened Friday. eldoradonews.com

Williams has used training to get the African baboons, who are not usually keen on being around humans, to allow keepers to listen to their heartbeats. insidebayarea.com

Usage in scientific papers

We have applied the above algorithm on many standard test images, e.g., Lena, Baboon, House and Peppers etc.
Random matrix route to image denoising

In order to study the reconstruction process, Floyd-Steinberg dither was applied on two gray images (Pepper and Baboon).
Undithering using linear filtering and non-linear diffusion techniques

The functional significance of baboon grooming behavior.
Stochastic evolutionary game dynamics

Individual contributions to a dyadic interaction: An analysis of baboon grooming.
Stochastic evolutionary game dynamics

Figure 5: Progressive image reconstruction of cameraman and baboon using our new bio-inspired coder.
Streaming an image through the eye: The retina seen as a dithered scalable image coder

Usage in literature

Simultaneously they rushed towards the baboons, baying savagely as they ran. "The Giraffe Hunters" by Mayne Reid

A baboon has no such rights; neither has a woman in her highest state of existence here. "History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I"

Chimpanzees, monkeys, baboons, and many other creatures, were tested in the Zoological Gardens. "Life of Charles Darwin" by G. T. (George Thomas) Bettany

The baboon is also a frequent emblem of his, but he is never figured with the {33} baboon head. "The Religion of Ancient Egypt" by W. M. Flinders Petrie

Gaw set on a chair like a man, an' not squat there like a baboon. "They of the High Trails" by Hamlin Garland

Did he refer to chimpanzees, baboons, gorillas or other species? "Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 8, 1914" by Various

You've only yourself to blame for being locked in, because we expected the baboon himself and couldn't trust you in his presence. "The O'Ruddy" by Stephen Crane

They may throne a wooden god or a baboon for a short moment, but that moment soon passes. "Shoulder-Straps" by Henry Morford

But the ape's baboons were much frightened. "The Chinese Fairy Book" by Various

Ye've many a steak to eat with me, ye contrary little baboon. "Money Magic" by Hamlin Garland

Usage in poetry
Nay, quoth baboon,
I do deny that strain:
I have more knavery in me
than you twain.
Tush, quoth baboon,
when men do know I come,
For sport from city, country
they will run.
The Big Baboon is found upon
The plains of Cariboo:
He goes about with nothing on
(A shocking thing to do).
But if he dressed up respectably
And let his whiskers grow,
How like this Big Baboon would be
To Mister So-and-so!
Above the cold Cordilleras hung
The winged eagle and the Moon:
The gold, snow-throated orchid sprung
From gloom where peers the dark baboon:
But, dear Johnny, as you said, he's just a lampoon,
And as ugly and as ignorant as a wild baboon;
And, as far as I can judge or think,
He is a vendor of strong drink.