How to Use baboon in a Sentence

baboon

noun
Definition of baboonnext
  • So to her, the location is worth navigating some close encounters of the baboon kind.
    — Outside Online, 26 June 2024
  • Footage revealed at CinemaCon earlier this year showed him fighting baboons as well.
    — Christian Holub, EW.com, 1 July 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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