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yellow tint of their fur, and most of them are well-formed 

 pleasing animals. They are found only in tropical Africa. 

 The baboons (Cynocephalus) are larger, but less 

 numerous. They resemble dogs in the general form and 

 the length of the face or snout, but they have hands with 

 well-developed thumbs on both the fore and hind limbs ; 

 and this, with something in the expression of the face and 

 their habit of sitting up and using their hands in a very 

 human fashion, at once shows that they belong to the 



Fig. 28. — yellow baboon {Cynocephalus babuino). 



monkey-tribe. Many of them are very ugly, and in their 

 wild state they are the fiercest and most dangerous of 

 monkeys. Some have the tail very long, others of medium 

 length, while it is sometimes reduced to a mere stump, 

 and all have large cheek-pouches and bare seat-pads. The 

 yellow baboon here figured is a native of West Africa, and 

 illustrates most of the characteristic features of baboons as 

 distinguished from other monkeys. They are found all 

 over Africa from Egypt to the Cape of Good Hope ; while 

 one species, called the Hamadryas, extends from Abyssinia 

 across the Red Sea into Arabia, and is the only baboon 



