A male olive baboon trying to get food from safari jeep, in the dense forest inside of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, in northern Tanzania.
Native to 25 different countries inside of Africa, the olive baboon, named for its color of coat, is the most wide-ranging species of baboon in the world. They live in social groups of between 15 and 150 members, consisting of only a few males, many females, and their offspring.
Adults begin to mate around 7 years old, with the females having multi-partner relationships during ovulation. While it is not necessary to mate with more than one partner to achieve pregnancy, one theory why they choose do this is that it makes the exact paternity unknown, reducing the chance of a male killing the infant of what it thinks is another male’s. Every now and then males will attempt to assert dominance over other males by standing near the ovulating female during her entire period of possible conception, fighting off any competitor who attempts to mate.
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