🐒Chacma baboon
El papión chacma, babuino chacma o papión negro (Papio ursinus) es una especie de primate catarrino de la familia Cercopithecidae que se distribuye por la sabana rocosa del África meridional. Su color es verde oscuro presentando callosidades desnudas en la base de la cola. Es de gran tamaño, un metro de longitud de cuerpo, y pesa hasta 45 kg. Forma grandes grupos de hasta doscientos individuos que están fuertemente jerarquizados. Ocupan un vasto territorio que van recorriendo en busca de alimento. Este es básicamente vegetal pero no desdeñan insectos, pequeños mamíferos y aves. En caso de peligro todos los machos hacen frente común.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2019.
- Body mass
- 18 kg
- Body length
- 0.76 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 45 years
Everything we know about the Chacma baboon
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass18 kgCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Body length0.76 mCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Brain mass195 gCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan45 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Generation length16 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Age at maturity4.2 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation179 daysCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Litter size1COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Trophic levelCarnivoreCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleDiurnalCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Home range9.12 km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Population density9.45 per km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l18 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Chacma baboon yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderPrimates
- ›familyCercopithecidae
- ›genusPapio
- ›speciesPapio ursinus
- classMammals · Mammalia
- familyCercopithecidae
- subfamilyCercopithecinae
- genusPapio
All 16 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- superorderEuarchontoglires
- suborderHaplorrhini
- infraorderSimiiformes
- superfamilyCercopithecoidea
- familyCercopithecidae
- subfamilyCercopithecinae
- genusPapio
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