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| Future evolution of baboons | |
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| Topic Started: Apr 16 2010, 09:35 AM (3,004 Views) | |
| irbaboon | Apr 16 2010, 09:35 AM Post #1 |
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If any primate were to out last mankind, I would tend to think it would be one of the baboon species. How would you see them evolving in the future if other primates were extinct and most of their main predators were as well? |
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| MitchBeard | Apr 22 2010, 09:56 AM Post #16 |
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The smaller females could also potentially occupy a different niche space than the males. Hunting different prey or something like that, that would be cool. In tougher times having different members of the same troop hunting different prey species, but still pooling resources throughout the troop would be quite an advantage. |
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| irbaboon | Apr 24 2010, 10:15 PM Post #17 |
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What do you seem them looking like? Anyone want to attempt some art? |
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| TheBioBassist | Apr 24 2010, 10:55 PM Post #18 |
Naked Man (who fears no pick pockets)
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Seeing as baboons already live in large troops I could definitely see the evolution of wolf-like predator baboons. Perhaps with the smaller faster females adapted to chasing and herding prey prey while the more powerful males wait to ambush. |
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"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "eureka" ( I found it) but "that's funny......"" -Isaac Asimov | |
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| Pando | Apr 24 2010, 11:31 PM Post #19 |
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here is a pack hunting lion-like carnivore baboon I made (and so far the only one):
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| Ook | Apr 25 2010, 05:07 AM Post #20 |
not a Transhuman
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i think that mandrils can evolve into arboreal predator |
   
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| Holben | Apr 25 2010, 11:12 AM Post #21 |
Rumbo a la Victoria
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Pando, why are its limbs the same length? Surely the shoulders should be more pronounced... and the skull features more flat. Not intended as criticism, just applying my own speculation. |
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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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| Pando | Apr 25 2010, 11:30 AM Post #22 |
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I'm not a good drawer. Did my best. |
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| Holben | Apr 25 2010, 11:31 AM Post #23 |
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No no no! It isn't a bad drawing! Just my speculation there... |
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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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| Black_Panther | Apr 25 2010, 01:27 PM Post #24 |
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Anyway, my take on a futuristic baboon: http://spidervenom022.deviantart.com/art/Future-African-Predators-118021492 The feraboon, aka 'tear-you-to-pieces-while-we-fling-dung-at-ye". |
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http://spidervenom022.deviantart.com Go in there for some odd stuff that could make you puke, and ask for some free sketches. 
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| irbaboon | Apr 25 2010, 05:44 PM Post #25 |
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I thought mandrills weren't baboons? |
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| Pando | Apr 25 2010, 06:09 PM Post #26 |
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They aren't. But the Mandrill genus is very closely related to the baboon genus. But baboons have a greater chance as 1) They're a whole genus compared to the Mandrills single species 2) They have a lot of Least Concern species while the Mandrill is vulnerable 3) Baboons have a big range, mandrills have a tiny range 4) While they're both omnivorous, baboons are more dangerous and vicious. Mandrills only take small ungulates, baboons can take entire lions. |
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| Ook | Apr 25 2010, 11:52 PM Post #27 |
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single species ?...there is mandrill and drill 
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| Pando | Apr 26 2010, 12:01 AM Post #28 |
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Drill is not a Mandrill though. And they have and even smaller chance of surviving, being in Endangered rather than Vulnerable like the Mandrill. And they're not only declining in the wild, they're also declining in zoos. A carnivorous gorilla would be awesome, but sadly one is Critically Endangered and the other Endangered. And on the topic of baboons, Imagine the Risa from Metazoica with claws for a carnivorous baboon.  And what about a Toruus-like baboon?  Baboons have a lot of potential for diversity. This gives me a lot of ideas for the Postozoic African grasslands... |
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| Toad of Spades | Apr 26 2010, 12:07 AM Post #29 |
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Could work well as a possible saber-toothed cat analogue baboon.
Edited by Toad of Spades, Apr 26 2010, 12:09 AM.
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| Pando | Apr 26 2010, 12:11 AM Post #30 |
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Unrealistic. I expect carnivorous baboons to look like Carnivora or Creodonta. |
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