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found south of the Zambezi. The fur is long and thick, 

 olive coloured on the head and shoulders, and becoming 

 mixed black and golden-red towards the tail. I have 

 met with it in East Africa amongst the bush on the 

 outskirts of the main forest. 



CHAPTER XV 

 BABOONS AND LEMURS 



THE CHACMA BABOON. This is the well-known baboon 

 of South Africa. Its range extends from the Cape to 

 about the latitude of the Zambezi, where its place is 

 taken by an allied species. The Chacma varies in colour 

 from dark brown to olive, and a perceptible greyish 

 tinge appears in old animals. 



Colour seems to be uniform in the same troop, but 

 different troops, even within the same area, appear to 

 vary one from the other. Thus, while in the Sabi the 

 majority of the baboons display a distinct shade of olive 

 green in their coats, some more and some less, I have 

 seen troops the members of which were of a uniform 

 dark brown colour, with little, if any, tinge of yellow 

 or olive. Specimens shot and carefully compared leave 

 little doubt that this is the case. Females and young 

 animals are lighter in colour than adult males. Baboons 

 from the Transvaal appear, generally speaking, to be a 

 little shorter in the leg than those from the Cape Colony. 



The Chacma inhabits both forest and open country, 

 but is seldom encountered many miles away from the 

 rocky krantzes and boulder-strewn kopjes which are 

 so prominent features of many parts of South Africa, 

 and to which the animals always betake themselves at 

 night. The thickly bushed low country of the eastern 



