All 9 Baboon & Mandrill Species (World’s Largest Monkeys)

Head to squarespace.com/textbooktravel to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code textbooktravel In addition to being the largest monkeys on the planet, the 9 species of baboon and mandrill are also some of the most fascinating. Perhaps their most interesting characteristic is their group structure, either using a One Male Unit/OMU or Multi Male Multi Female Unit/MMU. In this video, we'll cover all 6 species of baboons in the Papio genus, both the drill and mandrill and take a quick look at the beautiful Gelada baboon of Ethiopia. 00:00 Introduction 00:43 Baboon Physical Characteristics 01:55 Baboon Species & Distribution 05:21 Baboon Ecology & Diet 07:47 Baboon Social Structure (OMU vs MMU) 09:32 Baboon Communication & Reproduction 10:49 Gelada Baboon Overview 12:32 Mandrill & Drill More rabbit holes to dive into! Relatives: https://tbtrvl.com/relatives Parks: https://tbtrvl.com/parks Most Popular: https://tbtrvl.com/popular Newest Videos: https://tbtrvl.com/newest Creative Commons Attribution Maps - Bamse, Chermundy & IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, species assessors and the authors of the spatial data https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ All maps are traced from those on Wikipedia and are distributed under the same CC BY-SA 3.0 licence on Wikimedia Commons: https://tbtrvl.com/rangemaps (Please note - I will be uploading all Old World Maps together at the end of this 3-video series) Media & Attribution Unless stated above, all still images are used under license from Shutterstock.com. Thank you to everyone who makes their work available for use. Covering all of the wonderful species in these videos would not be possible without your incredible work. Music All of the music used in this video is available at Epidemic Sound. If you need music and would like to support the channel, please find a referral link below. https://tbtrvl.com/epidemicsound Sources & Further Reading Listed below are the sources used to create the video. There are relatively few sources for this video because these first three websites contain such a wealth of information about each of the individual species covered. They are well worth checking out if you would like to read more about these animals. Wisconsin National Primate Research Center https://primate.wisc.edu/ New England Primate Conservancy https://neprimateconservancy.org/ Animal Diversity https://animaldiversity.org/ Encyclopaedia Britannica https://www.britannica.com/ National Geographic https://www.nationalgeographic.com/ IUCN Red List https://www.iucnredlist.org/ Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_World_monkey Ischial callosities of primates https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/aja.1000760104 Consortships https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781119179313.wbprim0033 Baboon menstrual cycle https://watermark.silverchair.com/030533.pdf Baboon natal care https://www.princeton.edu/~baboon/cradle_to_grave.html Primate group size https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/what-influences-the-size-of-groups-in-58068275/ About Textbook Travel: Exploring interesting topics and places. Educational content about the most fascinating elements of our planet and the study surrounding them. Current content includes: Current content: Relatives – a series exploring the most fascinating families in the animal kingdom Parks – a series exploring the world’s most spectacular national parks There is currently no upload schedule so please consider turning on all notifications to be notified when a new video is released. Thanks! Subscribe: https://tbtrvl.com/subscribe Website: https://www.textbooktravel.com #textbooktravel #educational #baboons