These crafty reptiles also try to catch the baboons by lying in wait for them at their drinking places; but the baboons are generally more than a match for the Crocodile in point of cunning and quickness of sight.
I watched a large Crocodile creep slily out of the water and lie in waiting among the rocks at the usual drinking place before they arrived, but the baboons were too wide awake to be taken in so easily.
The large tamarind-trees on the opposite bank are generally full of the dog-faced baboons (Cynocephalus) at their drinking hour.
Dismounting, to my surprise the Arabs immediately stripped from a mimosa several thongs of bark, and having tied the baboons by the neck, they gave them a merciless whipping with their powerful coorbatches of hippopotamus hide.
The Arabs now tied the baboons to trees, and employed themselves in carefully skinning the tetel so as to form a sack from the hide.
They looked almost more like baboons than human beings, and their language was unintelligible, except that words here and there resembled those in one of the Kolarian dialects.
This sub-family comprises the true baboons of Africa and the monkey-like baboons of India.
The next group of Indian monkeys is that of the Macaques or Magots, or Monkey Baboons of India, the Lal Bundar of the natives.
So, too, was the leopard, as he stole along in the direction of the foot hills of the mountain, hoping to surprise some of the noisy baboons that lived and clustered there.
A large baboon, who had in the mean time made his appearance in the circle, thought this was a good opportunity of doing a civil thing, and accordingly mounted the tree and sat down smilingly, as baboons smile, upon the next fork.
The Baboonsare the lowest of the Catarrhine or Old World Monkeys.
Though affecting dry, rocky regions from choice, the Anubis Baboons often descend in large hordes to the cultivated country, and ravage the gardens of the natives.
Very little is known of the habits of the Baboons in a state of nature; but it is probable that this species does not differ materially in its ways and manners of life from those of its near relations described in the preceding pages.
But instead of either of them dropping, the two Baboons started up; by a mutual instinct they both clutched their noses, gave a ringing bark and scampered off.
Both Baboons sprang towards the water, and leaning down, drank till they were satisfied; then, having gravely stretched themselves, they stalked away solemnly on all fours in the direction of the herd.
I have seen this movement with the Baboons in the Zoological Gardens; but sometimes the action seems rather to represent the searching for a stone or other object in their beds of straw.
Like the gibbon, it does not walk upon all four feet in the way that the monkeys and baboons do, and we find in the still further development of the brain and the higher arch of the cranium the reasons for its semi-erectness.
The Simiidæ, or true apes, possess an overwhelming importance, far beyond that of the baboons and monkeys.
The next division, called the Cercopithecidæ, includes the baboonsof the Old World.
Nick had fortunately awoke in time to prevent the baboonsfrom seizing his knife or gun.
Talking of baboons reminds me that these creatures are said to sleep sometimes on a ledge of rock on the face of a precipice for security against lurking foes.
Baboons were seen on the way, and shouted at us, whether in defiance, derision, or encouragement, is best known to themselves.
The baboons go about in troops, and are wont to leave a trusty old-man baboon on guard, while the rest go down at early morn to rob the settler of his fruits and vegetables.
At another place, where the prickly pear was very prolific, and the bush so dense that it formed a pretty safe retreat to escaped convicts, as well as baboons and tigers, we discovered a band of Kafirs celebrating a wedding.
Baboons had been heard barking on the evening of our arrival.
There is no group answering to the baboons of the Old World, which live on the ground.
His baboons turned to flee before the dogs, which he would set upon them, but if a dog chanced to grab a baboon, the latter would turn round and courageously rout the former.
The moral traits of the baboons are quite in accord with their external appearance.
The baboons have, in common with the natives, a great fondness for a kind of liquor manufactured from the grain of the durra or dohen.
Aristotle called the baboons dog-headed monkeys, on account of the shape of their heads, which have a resemblance to that of a rude, fierce dog.
The baboons are found throughout Africa, Arabia, and India.
More ludicrous still seemed the terror of the baboons of everything creeping, and of frogs.
In this respect at least, baboons have their uses, and on occasions have been the benefactors of man.
The old ones beat the young baboons with sticks if they do anything wrong, such as stealing the food from others.
As we approached the hills the country became covered with bush and long grass, where I may safely say, several hundreds of baboons were busy seeking roots.
In parts of the country there are some very pretty localities, where the woods are preserved, and occasionally may be seen several hundred baboons visiting those parts for the gum, of which they are very fond.
The baboons also in the hills must have felt its effects, for they could be heard far and near, with their half-human grunts.
You seem all surprised,' the hermit said, 'but remember that in olden times it was no rare thing to see baboons of this same species waiting at the tables of your English nobility.
We knew what was coming; there was no time to reach them through the bush below; the cries of the baboons made calling useless; and the three of us sat down with rifles levelled ready to fire at the first sight.
Among a troop of baboons the best of dogs would have no show at all.
If they had gone after the baboons they were as good as dead already-- nothing could save them.
The strange thing was that the baboons did not continue their terrified scramble up the mountain, but, once out of the bush, they turned and rallied.
That was only Jantje's explanation of the well-known fact that monkeys and baboons know the difference between one and more than one.
Baboons and monkeys, he said, can count just like men, but they can only count two!
These baboons though mischievious and ferocious, are not carnivorous; they principally feed upon fruits, roots, and corn.
The maimon resembles the baboons by his thick and large muzzle, and by his short and crooked tail; but he differs from them, and approaches nearer the monkeys, by his gentle disposition and smallness of his size.
Of the monkeys by the length of his tail; of the baboons by his size; and of the ape by the flatness of his face.
We may therefore presume, that Kolbe only copied this passage from Marmol, and applied the natural habitudes of the Mauritania pigmies to the baboons of the Cape of Good Hope.
The ancients never had a proper name for these animals; Aristotle alone has pointed out one of those baboons by the name of simia porcaria, but gives a very imperfect indication of it in other respects.
The baboons and monkies, which, whether sleeping or waking, are generally in a sitting posture, have also callosities on their posteriors.
To me the sound was a mere inarticulate cry, but the baboons clearly understood it, for they began to roll rocks down on to us.
Presently I heard a bark in the cliffs above me; it was answered by another, and then I saw that scores of baboons were hidden about among the rocks on either side, and were softly swinging themselves down to bar the path.
I have known Hottentots and Bushmen who said that they could talk with the baboons and understand their language, but I confess I never heard it done before or since.
Steep as the place was the baboons ascended it easily enough, springing from a knock of rock to the trunk of the tree that grew on the edge of the crevasse.
All the four little baboons were fast asleep, with their backs towards us, and their arms round each other's necks, the white one being in the middle.
It was a horrible nightmare; but I believe that the baboons are almost as human as the Bushmen.
The baboons made a good fight for it, however, and it was not till the old man was killed with an assegai that they ran away.
Meanwhile the baboons drew nearer, talking to each other as they came.
They will remind you of many an African yarn--that with the baboons may recall an experience of your own which I did not share.
I think that she must have been stolen by the baboons when she was quite tiny and nurtured by them, and that is why she is so like them.
From the day that we captured Hendrika the whole place began to swarm with baboons which were evidently employed in watching the kraals.
That is to say, she began to make a noise such as baboons do when they converse with each other.
That this woman had the power of conversing with baboons I knew.
She has come back, Macumazahn, with all the baboons in the world, and she has come back to do evil.
Up to this time the baboonshad shown no disposition to retreat.
While passing an elevation that might almost have been called a mountain, a troop of chacmas, or dog-faced baboons was seen descending from the summit, probably in search of water.
The leopard started off to leave the country, but the baboons followed, barking and screaming after him.
The baboons too have been barking occasionally; but there seems no other creatures about except jackalls and hyenas.
That is good: if baboons come here, and stay here, it shows that neither Bushmen or other men have been much here lately, and so we may not be disturbed.
The baboons feared to attack the leopard, as he would be too much for them, but they had decided on revenging themselves on him.
The baboons from the summit of the hills had descended into the plains in order to dig up roots, which there grew in abundance, and served them for food.
I have heard that same thing before," said Bernhard, "and I know the baboons are capable of it; they are very wise.
I often amused myself by trying to stalk near the baboons that lived near me when I was near the Winterberg, and they never but once were caught asleep.
After a time the leopard wanted to drink, but no sooner did he go to the water than the baboonscame around threatening him, and they were so active that the leopard could not attack them successfully.
The baboons ceased their labours and moved leisurely up the ravine, till reaching commanding positions on the summits of rocky eminences, they stood erect, and barked their displeasure at some threatening danger.
For three days the baboons followed him, and would neither let him eat nor drink, when the leopard became quite weak from thirst and want of food.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "baboons" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
