How to Use baboon in a Sentence

baboon

noun

• Jasiri adds to the zoo’s troop of more than a dozen Himalayan baboons.
  — John Metcalfe, The Mercury News, 28 Mar. 2024
• While moving the crate from the plane's cargo hold and to the baggage area, the baboon got loose.
  — USA TODAY, 21 May 2018
• There are people who have lived with baboons for years and years.
  — Jack McCordick, The New Republic, 16 Feb. 2023
• The baboon had to categorise the words and non-words by touching one of two shapes.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 12 Apr. 2012
• The time is nigh for Mullen to finally get Saban and the 500-pound Bama baboon off his back.
  — Mike Bianchi, orlandosentinel.com, 15 Sep. 2021
• The strontium ratio in the tooth enamel confirmed that the ancient baboon had not been born in Egypt.
  — Colin Barras, Science | AAAS, 15 Dec. 2020
• Both are baboon fibulae that have been notched by human hand.
  — The Economist, 5 Apr. 2018
• One of the early depictions of baboons dates back to the first dynasty, a small statue known as the Narmer baboon.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 12 Feb. 2024
• Another time, a crew set up a ground station on a mountaintop that turned out to be the home of a large troop of baboons.
  — Greg Miller, National Geographic, 28 Jan. 2017
• There’s a couple people that come by several times a day to say hi to the baboon and check in on the armadillo.
  — oregonlive, 25 Apr. 2020
• Then both chimpanzees climbed from the tree, leaving the baboon in possession.
  — National Geographic, 17 Apr. 2019
• One looks like a person, another a jackal, a baboon, and a hawk.
  — National Geographic, 16 July 2019
• The cactus is further spread by birds and animals, such as elephants and baboons, who eat the fruit and disperse the seeds.
  — Stephanie Bailey, CNN, 9 Dec. 2019
• One of the animals that stole Nyong'o's heart in the series is Bakari the baboon, who ends up caring for a baby among the clan when calamity strikes.
  — Nekesa Mumbi Moody, chicagotribune.com, 2 Aug. 2019
• From the tops of the same cliffs, actual animals—pied crows and baboons—followed our progress.
  — Aminatta Forna, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Aug. 2024
• Four baboons in Texas just climbed on top and escaped their enclosure.
  — Doug Criss, CNN, 18 Apr. 2018
• Spanning 8 acres, Africa Rocks will house African penguins, baboons, lemurs, monkeys, and, for the first time in the zoo’s history, sharks.
  — Leslie Hackett, Pacific San Diego Magazine, 30 June 2017
• Two of the most common causes of death for the dogs near Kibale are infectious diseases and baboon attacks.
  — Mark Johnson, jsonline.com, 15 Dec. 2017
• In 1984, a team of surgeons placed a baboon organ into the body of a baby girl, nicknamed Baby Fae.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 10 Mar. 2022
• Yet another showed a close-up of a black man and a baboon with pensive expressions.
  — Breanna Edwards, The Root, 13 Oct. 2017
• One baboon survived for three years with its brand new beating heart intact.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 10 Mar. 2022
• At one point, the camp even loses its territory to rhinos and baboons, forcing them to find a new base in the middle of the night, per the release.
  — Liza Esquibias, Peoplemag, 14 June 2024
• Khalil said he was told a baboon attacked an Israeli soldier.
  — Daniel Estrin, NPR, 15 June 2024
• The baboon was not native to Egypt, but still played an outsized role in Egyptian religion.
  — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 2 Aug. 2022
• Hyena prints are splayed and meaty; African wild dog prints are squarish and tidy; baboon prints look like a small human hand with an extra palm.
  — Ken Geiger, National Geographic, 17 June 2019
• For the most part, the Egyptians likely didn’t treat the baboons with physical violence.
  — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Dec. 2023
• In a second version of the test, her team found that even tiny baboon infants, at less than a year old, chose the bigger quantity on their own.
  — Max G. Levy, Wired, 25 Jan. 2022
• The few other bones in the cave came from various bovid species, a fox, and even some baboons (which forage in the high grasslands of the Ethiopian plateau and sleep on cliffside ledges).
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 9 Aug. 2019
• Snap close-up shots of the resident cheetahs and baboons, and zoom out to photograph large herds of zebras and springbok.
  — National Geographic, 15 Sep. 2019
• Death masks of numerous species hang on every wall—sometimes the preparators will pull one down to check the exact shape of the ridge above a baboon’s eyes, or the texture of a lizard’s scales.
  — Kevin Dupzyk, Popular Mechanics, 21 June 2018

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024