The Baboons of Dade City Wild Things

We have two baboons at the zoo, Tyson the Hamadryas Baboon and Wilson the Chacma Baboon. They are an old world monkey, that is when you smile at them or make eye contact with them, they take that as a form of aggression and will return the aggression to make themselves bigger or meaner than you are! They have two inch long fangs and they will show those to you if they feel threatened. They can weigh up to 100 pounds but can have the strength of four humans. Their pads on the bottom of their rump are made for sitting and the pads absorb shock from sitting or the cold and heat.