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Chacma Baboon - Papio ursinus
A very common sight along the Chobe river,
numbering from ten up to two hundred. Baboons are gregarious an dlive
in troops. They have a complex society where the males compete for dominance
and are constantly shifting their position in the hierarchy. The females,
on the other hand, largely inherit their social position from their mothers.
I fthey are born of a low-ranking mother they too will be low-ranking,
but if born of a high-ranking female they can at a very young age start
to assert dominance over a much older but lower-ranking female.
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