olive baboon

English

Etymology

From the greenish-grey colour of its fur.

Noun

olive baboon (plural olive baboons)

1. A subspecies of savannah baboon, Papio hamadryas anubis, found in highland areas of East Africa.

   Synonym: Anubis baboon

   • 2016 November, Richard Smyth, “Bird's-Eye Watching”, in Literary Review:

     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 […].