How big and how mean can a Male Olive Baboon be and get??

Depends if you try to take the bicycle

bBigger and meaner than a Beige bunny, thats for sure.. Sorry couldn't help myself, Hell I didn't even know monkeys came in colors......Opps there I go again, I'm outa here.

Nickudu thanks for the link. So is the Olive the common Baboon that you all write about that love to use a target pratice? Or is it the yellow? Where does the Mandrill live and how well do the speices intteract if at all? I'm just wondering because I was reading an article in the SoVP about a Pleistocene Baboon that was over 250 lb! It stated that the biggest Baboon now liveing was a Olive Baboon. I thought some of you "Big Game Hunters of Africa" could educate a poor boy as my self about the Olive Baboon.

Ray what can I say, other than I guess I'll buy you that Winchester modle 9410 that you love so much

As far as I know the Chacma baboons of RSA are the biggest of the baboons.
They get very aggresive when they are tame or frequently interact with people, they take chances. Especially around Cape town in winter when the baboons struggle to find food they raid houses and dustbins almost like the bears in the states. The only good wild animal is a wild one afraid of humans

Big males have longer canines than a male lion. But where they are shot as pest animals they fear humans at all costs.

The biggest Baboon I've seen was mating with a female on the rock fence outside of immigration as I was crossing the bridge from Zambia to Zimbabwe. He had no fear of humans, and when I walked out they were within 5 feet of me. He looked to be close to 5 feet tall, and I'm sure he weighed well over 100 lbs.

Paleohunter
Is there a link to that article on that pleistocene baboon you were reading?

Bakes

Yellow Baboon (smaller than the Olive Baboon).



Regards,

Terry

History shows that in times of hunger that baboons can become very aggressive and have been known to attack humans...Recently an article was written in Man Magnum...

In the early 50's in Zimbabwe or Kenya (I believe) the problem really got out of hand and attacks were rampant on farms until they were literally shot out..This has occrued on two ocassions where bands attacked farms...they even made a movie about it, but I do not know how factual the movie was, you know Hollywood is full of prunes most of the time.

No Bakes, not that I know of I read it out of the article from the society of vertbrate paleontology
jornnel.

Bakes the name of the big boy is Theropithecus Oswaldi.

This one was "pleasuring himself" behind a bush when I took him. I couldn't for the life of me figure out why he was just standing there looking at me until I got over there. YUCK!



Regards,

JohnTheGreek

Drills and mandrills are the largest baboons but they live in the deep in the forest/rainforest. The mandrills being the largest have the bright facial coloring.

Paleohunter
Thanks for the name, I'll do a search and see what I come up with.

Bakes

T,
I am surprised you got the camp staff to pose in that photo, in most places they are very superstitous about Baboons, the Shona belive that in them lives the spirit of a relative and to envoke anger in them by shooting them can cause untold grief to them..I tossed one in the back of truck and they all jumped out in the Northern Transvall, I think they were shona or an off shoot of the Zulu...

All I know is there were lots of them and they were very destructive around camp. The land owner wanted me to take any I could. The bastards were pretty cheeky at first but after being shot at they wise up fast. It figures that the one time I leave camp without a gun I walk up on the biggest one I saw. What I dont understand is that if there are so many of them and they are this destructive why are they on CITES?

Ray,
I am not sure what tribe they were from but the ph did say something to them about I had shot there cousin. Francis, the head tracker holding the baboons head, was exceptional at his job and a pleasure to be around always smiling and happy. I gained a lot of respect for these men and there hunting skills. This was a few years ago in Zim. Hope they are still around.

The guys I hunted with sure weren't worried about the baboons. They got the biggest kick out of me shooting one that was barking at us.

Their nickname for them was "Mista Benjamin".

Too bad this old one had no teeth left. I was hoping for an open-mouth pedestal mount.



Rick.

On my first Safari, which was in Namibia, I shot a very large male baboon. The hunting dog we were using was on the baboon in 2 or 3 seconds. Unfortunately, the baboon wasn't dead yet, and I saw the dog get bitten in half by the wounded primate. One bite!