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<\/a>Gelada baboon (Theropithecus gelada<\/em>), Szeged Zoo<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n I took these pictures in the Szeged Zoo where geladas share a relatively large area with the various species of African vultures.<\/p>\n Unusual for a primate, geladas mostly eat grass. Geladas are also called bleeding-heart baboons<\/em> because unlike most of their relatives<\/a> they display signs of fertility on their chests, not on their butts.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n Geladas do tend to sit a lot which hides their behinds. As a result, unlike most monkeys that show signs of fertility by becoming pink on their butts, geladas become pink on their chests when they are ready to mate — probably explains why one of their common names is the bleeding-heart baboon<\/em>.<\/p>\n Geladas communicate with each other using complex vocalization, some claim that this might be close in complexity to human language.<\/p>\n The Gelada, also known as the gelada baboon is an old world monkey from Ethiopia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[65,40,55,39],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/a><\/a>\n<\/a>\nFurther Readings:<\/h4>\n
\nGelada <\/a>(Theropithecus gelada) on ARKIVE.
\nGelada Baboon<\/a> (Theropithecus gelada).
\nEthiopia’s Exotic Monkeys<\/a>.
\nUnraveling the mystery of gelada monkey melodies<\/a> on petridish.org.
\nGelada<\/a> on Wikipedia.
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