The phrase "as a baboon" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in a metaphorical or humorous context to compare someone's behavior or characteristics to that of a baboon.
Example: "He danced around the room, flailing his arms and making loud noises, as a baboon would in the wild."
Alternatives: "like a baboon" or "in the manner of a baboon".
The cartoonists of Lincoln's day routinely depicted him as a baboon.
"I would argue that's not true at all: spotted hyenas live in a society just as large and just as complex as a baboon," Dr. Holekamp said, noting that spotted hyenas live in the largest social groups of any carnivore.
In this passage, widely quoted by opponents of evolutionary theory, Darwin suggests that the break between "man and his nearest allies" will be widened through the extinction of the great apes, leaving a gap between the more civilised man "and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as now between the negro or Australian and the gorilla".
White highlights make his face appear ablaze, his hair stands on end as if electrocuted, and his bottom is red as a baboon's, while his right arm twists so far forward that he looks like a war casualty.
The thing is walking like a baboon and trying to pose as a baboon". When Segokgo began her singing lessons, it was clear she possessed talent and passion.
The god Thoth, for instance, could be depicted as an ibis and as a baboon, and both ibises and baboons were given to him.
Here in lime-consolidated sand was the replica of a brain three times as large as that of a baboon and considerably bigger than that of an adult chimpanzee…" The Taung Child's teeth were more like a human child's than an ape's.
Banon, whose mother was a friend of Strauss-Kahn in the Socialist party, described him as behaving like a "baboon" when she went to interview him for a book she was writing.
Alternatively, attenuation maps derived from ultrashort echo time sequences (uTE) may help to better delineate the border between lung and liver as demonstrated in a baboon study in order to measure MR signals at times when proton spins have not yet relaxed (Borra et al., 2015).
In 1984, an infant known as Baby Fae received a baboon heart at Loma Linda University Medical Center in California.
Maximising exposure to the elements was a particular requirement in the naturist quarter, something I appreciate as I squat like a baboon and sip water in the dry gardens of Héliopolis, the brutalist, amphitheatrical sun-trap next to the beach.
