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Serious About Baboons & Want to Learn More?

 

Get to know the world's leading baboon experts.  Here are some useful links and resources to learn about the worlds leading research and groups surrounding baboons.  There is so much to learn about these incredible, complex animals and the information on C.A.R.E.'s website and also the ones below can help you do your homework and become a leading expert on baboons.

Reccomended Reading

  • Almost Human by Shirley Strumm

  • A Primate’s Memoir by Robert Sapolsky

  • Baboons by Louise Barrett

  • Cousins by Louise Barrett (also available on video)

  • Baboons: Tales, Traits, and Troubles by Attie Gerber

  • Baboon Metaphysics by Dorothy Cheney and Robert Seyfarth

  • Beast or Blessing by Jennie Trethowan (available for purchase at C.A.R.E.)

  • Primate People by Lisa Kemmemer (Rita Miljo, Founder of C.A.R.E. features in this book)

 

* adapted from baboonsonline.org

Baboon Documentaries

Baboons Wade Through Water

Sir David Attenborough and the natural history team behind BBC natural world epic 'Planet Earth' examine life on the Great Plains in this animal video. Watch as the African plains move from a desert wasteland to a world of feast and plenty with so much water flowing onto the barren ground that the baboons are forced to wade uncomfortably through the water.

Zambezi River

Wildlife documentary. A tale of life on the Zambezi River, set against the epic backdrop of Victoria Falls. The story is told from the point of view of a local fisherman, Mr White, who has fished these waters for 69 years, and whose riverside companions are elephants, baboons, hippos and kingfishers. Follow the fortunes of these animals through his eyes, and learn how their lives are ruled by the moods of the river and the rains.

Gelada Baboons

Filmed in the Ethiopian highlands.

Documentary - Wild Women of Viramba

Following years of research, the intimacies of this female- led group of baboons, are dramatically revealed.
Almost every day for the past 25 years, the Viramba troop of yellow baboons have been accompanied by scientists in one of the most extensive primate research projects ever conducted.

The Chacma Baboon

This is a video of the chacma baboon taken from the BBC's new "Life" documentary series

NATURE - Murder in the Troop

When a large male from a neighboring baboon troop stages a coup, power shifts and leadership changes hands throwing the established social order of the troop into turmoil. This tale unfolds on NATURE's Murder in the Troop. For more information, visit http://www.pbs.org/nature

Defending a monkey harem - Clever Monkeys - BBC Earth

The politics of monkey harems, and their uncanny reflections of our own human society. Great footage from BBC show Clever Monkeys.

Leopard Kills a Baboon and for a While Instinctively Protects the Baby

In nature it is survival of the fittest.  A leopard is one of the greatest predators of the baboon aside from ourselves.  This leopard kills a baboon and then finds a tiny baby attached to the kill.
For a while the protective and nurturing instincts of the leopard come out, whilst both animals do not know how to react to their situation.  However, without milk to feed the infant it eventually perishes.
The little orphan is crying, a noise which for anyone that knows the baboons will listen with a broken heart.

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