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Namib Desert’s northwest (#20 in series: maternity, on the rocks)

 

Baboons thrive in many different kinds of environment, across most of Namibia.

However, all of Namibia’s baboons belong to just one species: Papio cynocephalus ursinis, known as Chacma baboons, or Cape baboons.

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If you think that there are only two baboons in this post’s image, you are not looking closely enough!

Each adult heroine is carrying her infant.

At 12.21 pm on 14 November 2022 the four pictured primates were within a short walk of this series’ “pig’s ears” and gemsbok…all present, thanks to the Hoarusib River’s presence.

 

 

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