So they can also climb well. In fact, the availability of safe sleeping sites is the limiting factor to troop size. Because their food is so sparsely distributed, baboons often travel long distances, about 6-20 km a day on a home range of up to 60 sq km. Because they share their sleeping site and often their foraging home ground too, baboons are not territorial, although subgroups avoid each other as they forage. Male 18kg, female 10kg.
Males are twice as big and heavier than the females, and have a magnificent mane and huge canines.
One young, twins rare. Females mature in 5 years, males at 7 years. Northeastern Sudan to south-central Somalia. Semi-desert rocky and h illy plains, alpine meadows up to 2,300m. Unlike the other baboons, they have a complicated three-level social structure.