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From baboons to mandrills and chimpanzees to gorillas, Amazing Primates introduces young readers to some of the most fascinating primates on Earth. Readers will explore the history, natural habitats, physical features, diets, myths and legends, and life cycles of the worlds most fascinating primates. Did you know that baboons live in large groups called troops? There can be as many as 300 baboons in a single troop.

An authoritative study of the animals who have made themselves at home in so many contrasting environments throughout Africa. Presents a complete picture of baboons and their highly structured social groups.

Akimbo and his cousin, Kosi, join a scientist who has come to Africa to study baboons in the wild, but the expedition turns frightening when a black leopard begins prowling their camp, and the boys get lost in the bush.

A description of the development of an infant baboon provides a close-up of the habits and behavior of a troop of Olive baboons.

Altoona Baboona travels the world in her hot air balloon.

Presents information about baboons and other Old World monkeys, including their physical characteristics, behavior, and natural environment.

The author offers a memoir of his two decades in the field studying Kenyan baboons as he describes the members of the baboon troop and their behavior and his interaction with the neighboring Masai tribe.

A young baboon's view of the world changes as his mother shows him various parts of his environment.