Baboons and humans are closely related and share many behaviors, emotions, and ways of seeing the world.
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Learning about baboons will let you decide for yourself the ways that baboons and humans are similar - and the ways that we are different.
One fact is indisputable: for the first time in history we, humans, completely control the future of baboons. Thank you for visiting and joining in our project.
~ Shirley Strum, Kenya, 2009
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