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baboons

n. (plural of baboon English)

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Males who resign themselves up for passive intercourse to infected partners like weak and soon to be purple-assed baboons, may also nourish a little stranger.

The purple-assed Tripoli baboons had been brought to the Island by pirates in the 17th century.

There was a legend that when the baboons left the Island it would fall.

But nothing came, the rhino had disappeared and we had to be content with filming the baboons scampering about on the roof like clowns in a circus.

But the squeal was not repeated, everything hushed and still in the lifeless air, only the coughing grunt of baboons made faint by distance.

Then another pause and space of utter silence, followed by a blaze of light that dazed and blinded her, and suddenly one of the piled-up columns to her left swayed to and fro like a poplar in a breeze, to fall headlong with a crash which almost mastered the awful crackling of the thunder overhead and the shrieking of the baboons scared from their crannies in the cliff.

The chips they put into the baboons were off-the-shelf models with limited capabilities.

They continue working with baboons, maybe even round up some untouchables in Calcutta or somewhere and do it to them so they can learn how to do it on humans.

The only bad thing that could be said about the Radhakrishnan Institute was that they had made the transition from baboons to humans rather hastily.

The chip had worked in the baboons and it had worked in Mohinder Singh, after all.

I see a lot of fat-assed baboons shepherding my dollar bills around their tables.

She loves to hear the baboons barking, to have the air washed clean by the afternoon thunderstorms.

Differences in group behavior-something that it is very tempting to call cultural differences-have been reported among chimpanzees, baboons, macaques and many other primates.

Washburn has reported that infant baboons and other young primates appear to be born with only three inborn fears-of falling, snakes, and the dark-corresponding respectively to the dangers posed by Newtonian gravitation to tree-dwellers, by our ancient enemies the reptiles, and by mammalian nocturnal predators, which must have been particularly terrifying for the visually oriented primates.