during with the remaining baboons at most some extended hair at necks or neck as ornament of the males appears, one belongs manifested with the coat-baboons due, silver-gray mane about head and front-bodies to the ornament of the males. The more shortly hairy females are olivbraun usually colored. Also young males still possess this brownish fur, that changes slowly into the shining silver-gray of the old males with clearer shaping of the mane. The coat-baboon gains a length of approximately 80 cm, and its tail is good 20 cm long.
The face brightly flesh-colored with free-living coat-baboons blaßt in captivity strongly from. This is not applicable to the shining-red ones and swollen with fat-tissue filled buttocks-calluses of the males, who are an insignia of male strength and dignity. The strikingly colored seat-calluses of the females are surpassed important size and shining-red color in the heat-period by genital-swellings of often. These signals effect the males sexually provocatively and stimulate it to the mating.
Spread Today, one finds coat-baboons in Ethiopia, Somaliland and as zoo-geographically important, kleinerwüchsige race at Asia's opposite shore, namely in South-Arabia.
Habitat Coat-baboons are inhabitants of rocky areas with only sparse plant-growth so that these monkeys to the coverage of its calorie-demand must dedicate long time to the food-search daily. The inventive animals apparently developed a stopgap from this ecological predicament by often turning rocks in teamwork, about them among them situated insects reptiles u. ä. to carry off. Also defense-ready scorpions know to treat it as food by tearing out them the poison-thorn before the consumption.
Social-behavior The group-behavior of the coat-baboons deceased from that of the steppe-baboons. In each case a man collects 7-9 females about himself, whose children belong also to this in-man-family. Join together many such parentage 700 animals often in the protective rock-area to gigantic sleep-herds of sometimes only to the night. In the early morning, the respective in-man-families set off separately to the Tagewerk of the food-search then.
Also here, the main-enemies are the leopard and the trigger-happy human being, sometimes also its dog. If the Drohgesten of the Maulaufreißens and produce of the huge cuspids don't intimidate the enemy, the coat-baboons of elevated locations toss stones down or roll rocks to the aggressor down.
At fights emerges looking for the leopard-sure roosts in the rock-bays sometimes bitter and with much shouting of fought slaughter, with which however, most bites, grips and blows land in the swirling coat of the opponent, so that serious injuries are rare.
Historical Coat-baboons were sacred animals, who descended directly from the God, for the old Egyptians. In particular, the Hamadryas was the ibisköpfigen God Thoth, that awarded the people the wisdom, as assigned companions and servants. On numerous temple-friezes, grave-blackboards and plastics, coat-baboons, with what they usually forget about the hands in sedentary position on the knees, are represented. In later time than mummy, the sacred animals were prepared and were buried in the named position. its names almost were in Pharaoh-manner on the mummy-ribbons. In particular grave-chambers, the archaeologists found hundred of mummified coat-baboons. One doesn't know until today whether the Hamadryas populated also the Niltal at the then time or more upstream lying rock-regions were gotten into the old culture-country Egypt by this.
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