Baboons

Kingdom: Animalia
It is a mammal that breathes, eats, multicelluar form with special cells
rely on other organisms for nourishment
ingest food and digest food in an internal cavity
Have a their own means of locomotion
Phylum: Chordata
Bilaterally symmetrical bodies
At some point of the life cycle they have a pair of gill slits or pouches used to obtain oxygen in a liquid environment
have a notochord at some phase of their life cycle
members often have a head, tail and a digestive system with openings at both ends of their body.
Class: mammalian
conceive their young within the reproductive tract of the mother
nourish young with milk produced by the mother's mammary glands
are heterodynes
Are endothermic {warm blooded}
They have hair and sweat glands
They have a 4 chambered heart
They have a complex nervous system
They have large brain
Order: Primates
an Ancient and diverse ethereal group
around 233 living species place in 13 families
Primates usually recognized base on a suite primitive chasteristics in the skull, teeth and limbs.
Family: Cercopitheedae
The family cercopithicidae includes 18 and 81 species.
These monkeys are widely disturbuted in the old world.
They are medium to large size ranging from 1.5kg to over 50kg.
Many have stalky build.
Genius: Theropithecus
Species: Theopithcus gelada
They are not nocturnal
Very staky
Are rounded and very strong
They eat mainly fruit
They live in the only Jungle
Poem:
Baboons have red butts,
they do not like coconuts.
They swing from trees,
de' got many fleas.
There favorite food is banana,
But not the ones in pajamas.
References:
Web Diversity 1-3-00
http://animaldiversity.ummz.edu/
Baboons on yahoo 1-10-00 http://daphnc.palomar.edu/animal/default/htm
Baboons on yahoo 1-17-00
http://sailfish.exis.net/~spook/bab.html