Male olive baboons greet each other with an elaborate ritual. Studies suggest that baboons are adept at deception, utilizing the visual perspective of other individuals and using others as social tools. A hamadryas male can start his own troop by adopting and caring for subadult females. Baboons are the only primate besides chimpanzees that have been reported to engage in cooperative hunting. Savanna baboons have often been studied as a model for our early hominid ancestors, who are believed, by many, to have had a similar habitat.
Hamadrayas baboons have the largest day range of any primate.
One cognitive study showed that baboons had the ability to mentally rotate objects. This list will be periodically updated as more information becomes available. Smith EO Captive olive baboon and feral yellow baboon mother-infant proximity during infants' first three months. The role of female mating behavior in hybridization between anubis and hamadryas baboons in Awash, Ethiopia. The aged female baboon as a model of menopause.