Mum and baby baboon
Young baboons generally cling on to the underside of their Mothers and as they get older they start to ride on their backs. With all Old World monkeys, newborns cling to their mothers underside, it is thought that this protects the youngsters from the sun. With New World monkeys, they always cling to their Mothers backs as these monkeys generally live in dense forests and so a baby clinging to their belly would get in the way as they move through the trees. That's the theory anyway.
The chacma baboon is from the Old World monkey family. It is one of the largest of all monkeys. Located primarily in southern Africa, the chacma baboon has a wide variety of social behaviors, including a dominance hierarchy, collective foraging, adoption of young by females, and friendship pairings.
