That means that they eat a lot of things from plants to insects to meat. Given this variety, it is often easier to list what baboons don't eat than what they do. Savanna groups can reach 150 individuals and forest groups of as many as 300 have been seen. Troops usually have several mature males living with females and their offspring on a permanent basis. The group is organized around females and their tight-knit families.
Males come and go as they move through the population during their life.
A male's challenge is to win acceptance into the group and to sort out his relationships with other males, who will become allies and opponents, and with females and youngsters, who will become friends or at least accept him. We knew that crop raiding was a new behavior for baboons. Moreover, the baboons didn't need the crops to survive. Although the small farms, called shambas, did siphon off key parts of the troop's home range, or living space, the majority of the land remained untouched, and it contained the normal baboon foods. Even so, controlling the baboons turned out to be more difficult than we had imagined.