Olive baboon

Papio anubis · Cercopithecidae

The olive baboon, also called the Anubis baboon, is a member of the family Cercopithecidae Old World monkeys. The species is the most wide-ranging of all baboons, being native to 25 countries throughout Africa, extending from Mali eastward to Ethiopia and Tanzania. Isolated populations are also present in some mountainous regions of the Sahara.

Where the Olive baboon lives

Recorded in Kenya, Benin, Tanzania, Uganda, Ghana, Ethiopia, Rwanda and Central African Rep. (Africa).

Most records fall in Atakora, Rift Valley, Arusha, Borgou, Eastern and Manyara.

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Conservation status

Least concern (LC). Not at risk: it is doing well in the wild. Categories are the IUCN Red List as republished by GBIF.

Sources

The range is a density of 8,442 georeferenced GBIF records, not an expert-drawn map. Description from Wikipedia.