• The Papio baboons are known for their ecological flexibility and wide geographic ranges, as well as their uncertain taxonomy. (karger.com)
  • The savannah baboons (genus Papio ) form a cluster of 6 closely related allotaxa, classified either as separate species (e.g. (karger.com)
  • Arnold, 2009], and the Papio baboons as a whole are amongst the most successful African primates [Barrett and Henzi, 2008]. (karger.com)
  • For more than 70 y researchers have looked to baboons (monkeys of the genus Papio ) as a source of hypotheses about the ecology and behavior of early hominins (early human ancestors and their close relatives). (bvsalud.org)
  • We parameterize our social networks with data from wild baboons (Papio cynocephalus) and compare our simulated fissions with actual baboon fission events. (bvsalud.org)
  • Following the outbreak, blood samples were collected from 1,692 captive rhesus monkeys ( Macaca mulatta ), pigtail macaques ( M. nemestrina ), and baboons ( Papio spp. (cdc.gov)
  • This study will determine the home and daily ranges, and the feeding ecology of a troop of chacma baboons (Papio ursinus) found on Wildcliff Nature Reserve in the Western Cape of South Africa. (wildernesstrust.com)
  • We used video camera traps and soil analysis to investigate geophagy in chacma baboons inhabiting the Western cape of South Africa. (wildernesstrust.com)
  • However, previously the closely related gelada (genus Theropithecus ) and two species of mandrill and drill (genus Mandrillus ) were grouped in the same genus, and these monkeys are still often referred to as baboons in everyday speech. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • Some consider baboons to be a single species, which is designated Papio hamadryas (Comuzzie et al. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • P.h. hamadyas (sacred baboons), P. h. cynocephalus (yellow baboons), P. h. ursinus (Chacma baboons), P. h. papio (red baboons or Guinea baboons), and P. H. anubis (olive baboons). (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • However, while behaviorally and physically distinct from other baboon types, the Hamadryas baboon is known to hybridize with olive baboons, and recent phylogenetic studies of Papio show Hamadryas baboons to be more closely related to Guinea and olive baboons than to Chacmas (Newman et al. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • In Africa there are six species of baboons, and in Southern Africa lives one species, which are Chacma baboons (Papio ursinus). (bushguide101.com)
  • The Tsaobis baboon population is comprised of several troops of chacma baboons Papio ursinus. (yourdictionary.com)
  • Natives of Morocco and of the Sahara oases occasionally bring with them young baboons which they assert are obtained in various Sahara countries to the south and south-west of Tunisia. (yourdictionary.com)
  • Minnaar's Cave, or simply Minnaar, is a palaeontological site located in the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site, Gauteng province, South Africa. (wikipedia.org)
  • Their collective range spans most of sub-Saharan Africa - some 1,622 × 10 4 km 2 [Eeley and Foley, 1999] - and the south-west corner of the Arabian Peninsula, and includes habitats as varied as the semi-arid margins of the Sahara, the Namibian deserts, the evergreen tropical forests of the Congo basin and the grassy highlands of the Ethiopian Rift Valley. (karger.com)
  • The giant trevally is distributed throughout the tropical waters of the Indo-Pacific region, with a range stretching from South Africa in the west to Hawaii in the east, including Japan in the north and Australia in the south. (humandynamics.se)
  • In the Cape Peninsula, South Africa, rapid human population growth, and the associated urban and rural land transformation, threatens the sustainability of the local chacma baboon population. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The chacma baboon population in the Cape Peninsula, South Africa provides one of the best examples of primate commensalism with humans. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The earliest records of baboon and human co-existence in the Cape Peninsula date back to the 15th century with the arrival of Dutch settlers in South Africa [ 13 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The genus Searsia of the Anacardiaceae is extremely important in the vegetation of the part of South Africa corresponding climatically to the southwest of Western Australia. (ala.org.au)
  • But the latter question is salient simply because Searsia is overall such an important genus in South Africa, across such a wide spectrum of vegetation types. (ala.org.au)
  • Searsia in the southwestern Cape of South Africa is always recognisable by its trifoliate leaves, but otherwise varies greatly in life-form. (ala.org.au)
  • However, what remains true is that in 'pure' fynbos, i.e. the most pyrophilic vegetation in southwestern South Africa, Searsia tends to be either absent or present only as occasional plants of non-spinescent, evergreen, non-zoochorous spp. (ala.org.au)
  • Any biologist thoroughly familiar with the vegetation of the southwestern Cape of South Africa, if told that there is analogous vegetation in southwestern Australia, would surely assume that there must be some lookalike for Searsia in the Australian area, whether phylogenetically related or evolutionarily convergent. (ala.org.au)
  • They can raid human dwellings, and in South Africa they have been known to prey on sheep and goats . (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • Monkey orange is the collective common name for the fruit of at least five different Strychnos tree species, which occur from Durban/South Africa up to Western Tigray in Ethiopia. (bushguide101.com)
  • Not only are the wild ungulates and the major Carnivora of the Arabian peninsula all smaller-bodied than conspecifics (or their closest ecological counterparts) in Africa or mainland Asia, but five of the six wild species of ungulates, and both of the top carnivores, are smaller-bodied than the key deer ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_deer ) - an extremely diminutive form restricted to small islands off Florida. (inaturalist.org)
  • The pattern applies also to the extinct Arabian form of the ostrich (Struthio camelus syriacus, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabian_ostrich ), which was smaller-bodied than the various subspecies in Africa. (inaturalist.org)
  • There have, however, been few systematic comparisons of the environments occupied by the 6 major Papio species, and how differences in range conditions and variability might affect their evolutionary ecology remains unknown. (karger.com)
  • Caranx and other genera: several species. (humandynamics.se)
  • 8][12] In the Pacific, the species is spread throughout the South East Asian and Indonesian archipelago north mainland China and Japan and south to eastern Australia and New Zealand. (humandynamics.se)
  • In Hawaii the species is referred to as 'ulua paʻopaʻo' or 'papio' when small. (humandynamics.se)
  • The golden trevally (Gnathanodon speciosus), also known as the golden kingfish, banded trevally and king trevally, is a species of large marine fish classified in the jack and horse mackerel family Carangidae, and the only member of the monospecific genus Gnathanodon. (humandynamics.se)
  • The Arabian species is also smaller-bodied than Capra caucasica ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Caucasian_tur ) and the Ethiopian species Capra walie ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walia_ibex ). (inaturalist.org)
  • A total of 1227 COI sequences, belonging to 189 species, 122 genera and 59 families were obtained. (authorea.com)
  • Kunz and Linsenmair, 2008], although there is also evidence for some overarching patterning in baboon-environment relationships at the genus scale. (karger.com)
  • P. papio (western or Guinea baboon) is found in Senegal , The Gambia , and Guinea . (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • Seekoraal is the Afrikaans term for the Salicornia natalensis plant, which used to belong to the Sacocornia taxonomic genus before being reclassified under the Salicornia genus in 2017. (bushguide101.com)
  • Blue morphos are large, bright blue butterflies discovered in South The U.S.A. (and also southerly parts of North America). (beyondthepitch.net)
  • It is discovered throughout much of South America and in southern North America. (beyondthepitch.net)
  • The body mass attained by the genus Lepus ( https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/milewski/64019-why-has-there-never-been-a-donkey-size-jackrabbit-part-1 ) on the Arabian Peninsula is only a quarter of that attained by the same genus in semi-arid, subtropical North America. (inaturalist.org)
  • Purple Laver (Porphyra capensis) belongs to a genus of cold-water seaweeds that grow in cold, shallow seawater. (bushguide101.com)
  • It is typically bird-dispersed for the genus, with small rather dull fruits that certainly have fruit-pulp and certainly ripen, but tend to dry out and become hollow as they ripen. (ala.org.au)
  • In the wild, Bengal White Tigers are found exclusively within South Asia, notably in India. (photonicyatra.com)
  • See https://www.zoochat.com/community/media/arabian-mountain-gazelle-gazella-gazella-cora.421165/ and https://www.shutterstock.com/nb/image-photo/extremely-shy-wild-female-dorcas-gazelle-387163744 and https://www.biolib.cz/en/image/id171988/ and https://www.shutterstock.com/nb/image-photo/male-arabian-mountain-gazelle-gazella-cora-1139195546 and http://shahbazmuhammed.blogspot.com/2015/03/arabian-mountain-gazelle.html . (inaturalist.org)
  • 2016. Cercopithecoid humeri from Taung support the distinction of major papionin clades in the South African fossil record. (morphobank.org)
  • So, the absence of Searsia from southwestern Australia is a minor question relative to the major question of the absence of this genus from Australasia generally. (ala.org.au)
  • Bambis (ruminants with body mass 15 kg or less) occur in South America. (inaturalist.org)
  • An artificial bay, it was formed when land reclamation created the Marina Centre and Marina South areas, which form a body of sheltered waters of what was once open sea. (photonicyatra.com)
  • This failure of southwestern Australia - and indeed the rest of Australia - to produce anything that I could call a counterpart to the various searsias (which are in many ways so diverse that they make for a remarkably plastic genus) is for me one of the most surprising aspects of the intercontinental comparison. (ala.org.au)
  • Capra nubiana has adult female body mass about 23.5 kg ( https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/pdf/10.4141/cjas84-204 ), compared to 56 kg in Capra cylindricornis ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Caucasian_tur ). (inaturalist.org)
  • The Patagonian mara (Dolichotis patagonum, https://academic.oup.com/mspecies/article/doi/10.2307/0.652.1/2600781?login=false ) is a relatively cursorial caviid rodent ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caviidae ), with a body mass of about 10 kg. (inaturalist.org)
  • We also illustrate the potential utility of MicrobeTrace in support of contact tracing by analyzing and displaying data from an outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 in South Korea in early 2020. (cdc.gov)
  • The boa constrictor is a large snake that is discovered in South as well as Central The U.S.A. (an introduced population additionally exists in Florida). (beyondthepitch.net)
  • Jasmine is an evergreen, vine-like plant that grows in tropical climates around South and Southeast Asia. (natureinfo.in)
  • It is bordered to the south by the Blaauwbank River. (wikipedia.org)
  • Limited publication on the resulting Haasgat Dumpsite faunal assemblage (HGD) described a large sample of extinct terminal Pliocene or early Pleistocene primates, including Papio angusticeps and a novel species of extinct Cercopithecoides , but an essentially modern sample of ungulates. (palaeo-electronica.org)
  • Snub-nosed monkeys of the genus Rhinopithecus are found along the eastern Himalayas from Nagaland, India to Hainan Island in China. (outlifeexpert.com)
  • To solve the evolutionary history of colobine genera and to determine causes for possible gene tree incongruences, we combined presence/absence analysis of mobile elements with autosomal, X chromosomal, Y chromosomal and mitochondrial sequence data from all recognized colobine genera. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Homo naledi pollical metacarpal shaft morphology is distinctive and intermediate between that of australopiths and other members of the genus Homo. (sc-ctsi.org)
  • The Spider monkey is one of the largest types of monkeys that live in the tropical forests of Central and South America. (outlifeexpert.com)
  • They inhabit tropical rain forests in Central and South America. (lookformedical.com)
  • Cebus inhabits the forests of Central and South America. (lookformedical.com)
  • An Acheulean hand ax found in India (South Asia) indicates that H. erectus moved to South Asia shortly after the invention of stone tools, around 1.6 million years ago. (blogspot.com)
  • Taphonomy of the Gondolin GD 2 in situ Deposits and its Bearing on Interpretations of South African Plio-Pleistocene Karstic Fossil Assemblages. (journaltaphonomy.com)
  • At present, this sample is the only sizeable (n=95,549) Plio-Pleistocene (~1.8 million years ago) South African karstic-derived faunal assemblage sampled solely from calcified in situ sediments with minimal recovery phase temporal or spatial aggregation. (journaltaphonomy.com)
  • Integration of the results with recent interpretations of the Gondolin karstic system and primate-bearing Plio-Pleistocene South African assemblages highlight the fundamentally idiosyncratic nature of individual taphonomic measures and processes that mediated the composition of the macromammalian fossil records in karstic deposits, even those with similar primary accumulative agents or from spatially proximate portions of the same cave system. (journaltaphonomy.com)
  • Cape foxes The Cape fox (Vulpes chama) belongs to the genus Vulpes in the tribe of real foxes (Vulpini) in the dog family (Canidae). (topmbadirectory.com)
  • HN - 2005 BX - Lovebirds MH - Agelas UI - D047230 MN - B1.500.802.39 MS - A genus of large, brightly colored SPONGES in the family Agelasidae, possessing a skeleton of spongin fibers with a core of large spicules (megascleres). (nih.gov)
  • They inhabit the forests of South and Central America, comprising the largest family of South American monkeys. (lookformedical.com)
  • A family of the New World monkeys inhabiting the forests of South and Central America. (lookformedical.com)
  • Palaeontological evidence suggests the forests on South Africa's coast have existed for 20 thousand years. (sygic.com)
  • Papio hamadryas is found on the African continent in the area of the southern Red Sea, in Ethiopia, Somalia, and Eritrea. (animaldiversity.org)
  • The waterbuck, as pictured here, is nearly always found within a few kilometres of water, and is found in the national parks of South Luangwa and Kafue, Zambia. (grida.no)
  • Preliminary inventory of the mammal fauna of the south-eastern extremity of the Truong Son mountain range] // Korzun L.P. & Kalyakin M.V. (eds. (therio.ru)
  • a genus ( Papio ) of monkeys with strict social dominance hierarchies. (ishinobu.com)
  • However, phylogenetic relationships among genera are under debate, and recent molecular studies with incomplete taxon-sampling revealed discordant gene trees. (biomedcentral.com)
  • H. erectus reached South Asia earlier than previously thought, between 1.5 to 1 million years ago according to Acheulean tools. (blogspot.com)
  • HN - 2005 MH - Amazona UI - D046708 MN - B1.150.900.248.710.672.50 MS - One of the largest genera of PARROTS, ranging from South American to Northern Mexico. (nih.gov)
  • The Podocarpus genus (Yellowwood) is possibly as old as 105 million years, and some of the Tsitsikamma's most famous yellowwood trees are between 600 and 800 years old. (sygic.com)
  • b ) The location of the site of 'Ubeidiya, south of lake Kineret (Sea of Galilee), on the western banks of the Jordan Valley (red circle) ( c ) aerial photograph of the excavation plan of 'Ubeidiya with the location of layer II-23 where UB 10749 was recovered. (nature.com)