Chimpanzee vs Baboon - What's the difference?
chimpanzee | baboon |
A great ape of the genus Pan , native to Africa, and believed by biologists to be the closest extant relative to humans.
An Old World monkey of the genus Papio , having dog-like muzzles and large canine teeth, cheek pouches, a short tail, and naked callosities on the buttocks.
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As nouns the difference between chimpanzee and baboon
is that chimpanzee is a great ape of the genus Pan, native to Africa, and believed by biologists to be the closest extant relative to humans while baboon is an Old World monkey of the genus Papio, having dog-like muzzles and large canine teeth, cheek pouches, a short tail, and naked callosities on the buttocks.chimpanzee
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(wikipedia chimpanzee)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* chimpHolonyms
* (individual chimpanzee) chimpkindbaboon
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(wikipedia baboon)Alternative forms
* babian, babion * ** babewyne ** baboyne * ** babewen ** babewin ** babewyn ** babwen ** babwyn ** baubyn * ** baboon ** baboone ** babound ** baboune ** baboyn ** babwyne * ** baboon ** baboone ** baboune * ** baboonNoun
(en noun)page 79(Nelson Doubleday)
- Mix swallowed the comment he wanted to make, that the council hall stank like a congress of baboons . But he was in no position to insult his host, nor should he. The man was only expressing the attitude of his time.
citation, passage=He draws eclectically on studies of baboons , descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record.}}
