In 2009, Dresden Zoo had to apologise after naming a small baboon after Mr Obama.

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His family kept a genet cat, a duiker and a baboon called Bimbo.

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Another community-based tourism venture is the Community Baboon Sanctuary, an experiment in voluntary citizen conservation, founded in 1985.

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The rocky great-apes enclosure is constantly surrounded by tittering schoolkids, pointing at the pink and blue posteriors on display in the baboon and mandrill pens.

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The Community Baboon Sanctuary (CBS) is a grassroots conservation operation that occupies about 20 square miles, spread over several Creole villages in the Belize River Valley.

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Mr. BILLY LEROY: It's a stuffed baboon from Africa.

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Simon Muzenda, one of Mr Mugabe's vice presidents, once said that Zimbabweans should always vote for the ruling party, even if the ruling party chose to select a baboon as its candidate.

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Authorities, who did not have access to tranquilizer guns, killed two wolves, six black bears, two grizzly bears, nine male lions, eight female lions, one baboon, three mountain lions and 18 Bengal tigers.

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From the moment the animals arrive majestically onstage, called from the wings and down the aisles to Pride Rock for the birth of Simba by a mesmerizing Zulu chant and response led by Rafiki, the baboon-shaman, the story is liberated from its soppy, hidebound cartoon naturalism.

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We had a baboon.

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