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