A genus of the subfamily CERCOPITHECINAE, family CERCOPITHECIDAE, consisting of five named species: PAPIO URSINUS (chacma baboon), PAPIO CYNOCEPHALUS (yellow baboon), PAPIO PAPIO (western baboon), PAPIO ANUBIS (or olive baboon), and PAPIO HAMADRYAS (hamadryas baboon). Members of the Papio genus inhabit open woodland, savannahs, grassland, and rocky hill country. Some authors consider MANDRILLUS a subgenus of Papio.
    

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The baboon : microbiology, clinical chemistry and some homatological aspects / S.S. Kalter ; with the participation of A. de la Pena [and others].

Heterografts in primates / J.M. Dubernard, M. Bonneau, M. Latour ; with the collaboration of J. Eyraud [and others] ; prefaces by Ch. Merieux, J. Perrin and J. Traeger.

Just monkeys / by Maurice Wilson.

Sex and friendship in baboons / Barbara B. Smuts.

A primate's memoir / Robert M. Sapolsky.

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The baboon : microbiology, clinical chemistry and some homatological aspects / S.S. Kalter ; with the participation of A. de la Pena [and others].

Heterografts in primates / J.M. Dubernard, M. Bonneau, M. Latour ; with the collaboration of J. Eyraud [and others] ; prefaces by Ch. Merieux, J. Perrin and J. Traeger.

Just monkeys / by Maurice Wilson.

Sex and friendship in baboons / Barbara B. Smuts.

A primate's memoir / Robert M. Sapolsky.