Baboon

Baboons are big ground-dwelling monkeys with dog-like muzzles, long limbs, and fearsome canine teeth. They live in large day-active troops across warm forests, rocky uplands, and open plains, ruled by a core of heavy-shouldered males collared in grey fur. Most troops bolt for the trees at any threat, but a cornered band, especially when its young are endangered, turns savage, swarming an intruder with bites and battering leaps. A rarer tropical palm-forest breed, the coconut-hurler, pelts attackers from the branches with hurled coconuts and globes of foul retch-plant pulp that sicken those they strike, before closing. Curious, clever, and long-memoried, baboons raid camps and crops, stuffing food into their cheek pouches.