Pictured is a chacma baboon on a beach covered with elephant dung near the edge of the Chobe River in the Chobe National Park in Botswana, Africa. Baboons are attracted to the dung because it is filled with tasty morsels of fruit and seeds that have passed undigested through the digestive track of the elephants. The chacma baboon usually lives in social groups, called troops, which are composed of multiple adult males, adult females, and their offspring. The binomial name is Papio ursinus. The baboon was photographed from the Chobe River on a safari boat from the historic Chobe Game Lodge.
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