Hamadryas baboon
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A baby hamadryas baboon travels by holding on to its mother’s hair.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Hamadryas baboon
- Scientific name
- Papio hamadryas
- Japanese name
- マントヒヒ
- Group
- Land mammals
- Class
- Mammalia
- Order
- Primates
- Family
- Cercopithecidae
- Genus
- Papio
It is a baboon of northeastern Africa and the southwestern Arabian Peninsula that lives in grasslands with scattered low shrubs.
Its face is pink and its body is covered in gray fur. Males have long hair around their shoulders that looks like a cape.
At night it sleeps on steep, rocky cliffs. Small groups of a male and his females gather together to form larger groups.
How the Hamadryas baboon lives
It is active during the day and wakes around sunrise. It eats grass seeds, roots, and acacia flowers, leaves and pods. Especially during dry times, the troop gathers in the afternoon to drink water. Around sunset, it returns to its sleeping site and grooms before bed.
San Diego ZooBasic data
- Range
- Northeastern Africa from Ethiopia to Somalia and the southwestern Arabian Peninsula
Where the Hamadryas baboon has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- マントヒヒ
- 简体中文
- 阿拉伯狒狒
- 繁體中文
- 阿拉伯狒狒
- 한국어
- 망토개코원숭이
- Español
- Hamadríade
- Français
- Babouin hamadryas
- Deutsch
- Mantelpavian
- Português (Brasil)
- Babuíno-sagrado
- Italiano
- Amadriade
- العربية
- رباح مقدس
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Babun hamadria
- Tiếng Việt
- Khỉ đầu chó Hamadryas
- Русский
- Гамадрил
- Türkçe
- Arap babunu
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 日本モンキーセンター — マントヒヒChecked: 2026-11-03
- San Diego Zoo — Hamadryas BaboonChecked: 2026-11-03
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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