Sentence examples for baboon from inspiring English sources

Slightly redeemed himself by describing the baboon as "no stupider than Piers Morgan".

AA Gill – food critic, author and all-round friend of Clarkson – angered animal rights groups five years ago with a column about how he'd gunned down a baboon while on safari in Tanzania.

The rocky great-apes enclosure is constantly surrounded by tittering schoolkids, pointing at the pink and blue posteriors on display in the baboon and mandrill pens.

There he ran into the author, an American primatologist who had been studying baboon behaviour for 12 years.

Robert Sapolsky, a primatologist at Stanford University, was five years into a study of the reserve's olive baboon population when one of the troops he had been observing suffered an outbreak of tuberculosis which killed half of its males.

Dr Sapolsky and Dr Share are therefore watching the troop intently, to see what, if anything, causes its males to revert to the tried and tested macho methods of normal baboon life.

His Lady Macbeth is a powerful female baboon, but she wants more.

His family kept a genet cat, a duiker and a baboon called Bimbo.

Ruth's slugging thrilled the crowds, broadened baseball's appeal and filled the stands, but for McGraw he was a mere slugger, "the Big Baboon" or "the Big Ape .Ty Cobb, a rival baseball star, was even ruder.

I'm distracted by the local fauna, a cat and a horny toad, also by a stump that looks like a baboon and a piece of concrete that looks like Barack Obama.

In insisting that the baboon troupe give full vent to its coughs, whoops and screams, the South African director, Nicholas Ellenbogen, ensured that the opera opened up its dark and unforgettable animal heart.