Description العربية: رباح مقدس
English: Hamadryas baboon
Date 17 October 2013, 12:46:14
Author المُصوّر: مُعتز توفيق إغباريّة https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Moataz1997
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hamadryas_baboon.jpg

The hamadryas baboon (Papio hamadryas) is a species of baboon from the Old World monkey family. It is the northernmost of all the baboons, being native to the Horn of Africa and the southwestern tip of the Arabian Peninsula. These regions provide habitats with the advantage for this species of fewer natural predators than central or southern Africa where other baboons reside. The hamadryas baboon was a sacred animal to the ancient Egyptians and appears in various roles in ancient Egyptian religion, hence its alternative name of 'sacred baboon'. Order: Primates, Family: Cercopithecidae, Tribe: Papionini, Genus: Papio, Species: Papio hamadryas (Linnaeus, 1758).
Synonyms:
Hamadryas aegyptiaca Gray, 1870
Papio arabicus Thomas, 1900
Papio brockmani Elliot, 1909
Hamadryas chaeropitheus Lesson, 1840
Simia cynamolgus Linnaeus, 1758
Theropithecus nedjo Reichenbach, 1863
Cynocephalus wagleri Agassiz, 1828