Best Multimale Group

With 21 of the 65 Hamadryas baboons known to exist in North America, the NC Zoo offers the best opportunity to see how this species is meant to exist and interact with its own.

The North American population was in decline when the NC Zoo found five infants in a Florida lab. These were genetically unrelated to the struggling North American zoo population and have breathed life back into the breeding group.

The "News & Record" (Greensboro) today quotes NC Zoo keeper Jennifer Ireland: "We are at the forefront in housing a multimale group. In the wild they live in multimale groupings so that's really helped the breeding situation. The relationship between males and females, and males and males, is right on the ball. It's like reading their natural history by watching them interact."

You will find newborns, infants, toddlers, adolescents, young adults and silverback males interacting within today's NC Zoo Hamadryas baboon troop.