Olive Baboon
Field guide
mammal ·

Olive Baboon

Papio anubis

Overview

Serengeti National Park, Ngorongoro Conservation Area and Maasai Mara National Reserve are among the 15 atlas locations where the Olive Baboon is recorded. Its records concentrate in Benin, Uganda, Burkina Faso, Tanzania and Kenya. The atlas holds 1,309 records of this mammal, Papio anubis, from the family Cercopithecidae, across the same number of countries.

Seasons differ by region because records are from both hemispheres, and each place page shows the months recorded there.

Records
1,309
Countries
15
Atlas places
15
Recorded in and around these atlas places

These are open occurrence records, so they show where people looked for and recorded the Olive Baboon as much as where it lives. Cells are up to 25 km across, and every location is generalised to its cell.

Where you'll find them

Generalised encounter areas, not exact locations. Each shape is a grid cell coloured by how likely the species is there.

  • Benin
    25 km zone · medium confidence · 482 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Uganda
    25 km zone · high confidence · 271 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Tanzania
    25 km zone · medium confidence · 220 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Kenya
    25 km zone · medium confidence · 206 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Burkina Faso
    25 km zone · medium confidence · 29 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Ghana
    25 km zone · medium confidence · 27 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Niger
    25 km zone · medium confidence · 23 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Ethiopia
    25 km zone · medium confidence · 21 records · updated 40 days ago
    Likely
  • Rwanda
    25 km zone · medium confidence · 20 records · updated 40 days ago
    Likely
  • Central African Republic
    25 km zone · medium confidence · 4 records · updated 40 days ago
    Possible

Conservation status not assessed here yet, so every location is generalised to its grid cell.

Photographs
1 of Olive Baboon