What is Hamadryas baboon?
{{Speciesbox | name = Hamadryas baboon<ref name=msw3>{{MSW3 Groves|pages=166–167|id=12100586}}</ref> | image = Paviane Papio hamadryas Tierpark Hellabrunn-18.jpg | image_caption = Male at [[Tierpark Hellabrunn]] | image2 = Hamadryas baboon (Papio hamadryas) female.jpg | image2_caption = Female, [[Awash National Park]], [[Ethiopia]] | status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref name=iucn>{{Cite journal | author = Gippoliti, S. | author2 = Ehardt, T. | name-list-style = amp | title = ''Papio hamadryas'' | journal = [[The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species]] | volume = 2008 | page = e.T16019A5354647 | date = 2008 | url = http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/16019/0 | doi = 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2008.RLTS.T16019A5354647.en | access-date = 12 January 2018}}</ref> | genus = Papio | species = hamadryas | authority = ([[Carl Linnaeus|Linnaeus]], [[10th edition of Systema Naturae|1758]])<ref>{{cite book|last=Linnaeus|first=Carl|title=Systema naturæ. Regnum animale.|year=1758|page=27|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/80764#page/37/mode/1up|edition=10th|access-date=19 November 2012}}</ref> | range_map = Hamadryas Baboon area.png | range_map_caption = | synonyms = ''Simia hamadryas'' <small>Linnaeus,&nbsp;1758</small> }} The '''hamadryas baboon''' (''Papio hamadryas'') is a species of [[baboon]] from the [[Old World monkey]] family.<ref>Groves C.P; Wilson D.E. Reeder D.M. (eds)'' Mammal species of the world: a taxonomic and geographic reference''. 3rd ed, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 166–167. {{ISBN|0-801-88221-4}}</ref> It is the northernmost of all the baboons. It lives in the [[Horn of Africa]] and the southwestern tip of the [[Arabian Peninsula]]. These regions have fewer natural [[predators]] than central or southern [[Africa]], where other baboons live. The hamadryas baboon was a sacred animal in [[ancient Egypt]]. == References == {{reflist}} {{-}} {{biology-stub}} [[Category:Old World monkeys]] [[Category:Mammals of Africa]] [[Category:Mammals of Asia]]