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The Yellow Baboon (Papio cynocephalus) is a baboon from the Old World monkey family.

They have a slim body with long arms and legs and a yellowish-brown skin. They resemble the Chacma Baboon but are smaller and their muzzle is not as elongated. The hairless face is black, framed with white sideburns. Males can grow to about 84 cm, female to about 60 cm. They have long tails, which become nearly as long as the body.

Yellow Baboons inhabit savannahs and light forests in the eastern Africa, from Kenya and Tanzania to Zimbabwe and BotswanaThe Republic of Botswana Lefatshe la Botswana is a landlocked nation of southern Africa. Formerly the British protectorate of Bechuanaland, Botswana adopted its new name after becoming independent on September 30, 1966. It is bordered by South Africa to t. They are diurnalThe term diurnal means active in the daytime. This definition is often related to animals or plants. The opposite of the nocturnal or crepuscular. Diurnal means daily, especially pertaining to actions which are completed in 24 hours and are repeated every, terrestrialTerrestrial literally means 'of the earth' and is used in a variety of contexts: In biology and in the general sense, terrestrial means indicates ground-dwelling (compare aquatic). In broadcasting terrestrial indicates that TV or radio signals are receive and live in complex mixed gender social groups. They are omnivorous with a preference for fruits, but they also eat other plant parts as well as insects and small vertebrate animals.

There are three subspecies of Yellow Baboon:

• Papio cynocephalus cynocephalus
• Papio cynocephalus ibeanus
• Papio cynocephalus kindae