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GELADA , the Abyssinian name of a large See also: species of baboon, differing from the members of the genus Papio (see BABOON) by the nostrils being situated some distance above the extremity of the muzzle, and hence made the type of a See also: separate genus, under the name of Theropithecus gelada
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In the heavy See also: mantle of long See also: brown hair covering the fore-quarters of the old
See also: males,
1 See also: Aeschylus died there in 456 inc.with the exception of the See also: bare chest, which is reddish flesh-colour, the gelada recalls the Arabian baboon (Papio hamadryas), and from this See also: common feature it has been proposed to place the two species in the same genus
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The gelada inhabits the mountains of See also: Abyssinia, where, like other baboons, it descends in droves to pillage cultivated lands
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A second species, or See also: race, Theropithecus obscurus, distinguished by its darker hairs and the presence of a bare flesh-coloured ring round each See also: eye, inhabits the eastern confines of Abyssinia
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