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. |
