olive baboon
English
Etymology
From the greenish-grey colour of its fur.
Noun
olive baboon (plural olive baboons)
- A subspecies of savannah baboon, Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template., found in highland areas of East Africa.
- Synonym: Anubis baboon
- 2016, Richard Smyth, ‘Bird's-Eye Watching’, Literary Review, November:
- A study of Kenyan olive baboon troops by Margaret Crofoot and her team at the University of California, Davis, considered first the patterns made on a map by the animals' movements […].