chacma
- noun
- /ˈtʃækmə/
- South African
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chacma
- While traveling in northern Namibia, she encountered a baby female chacma baboon named Bobby.
- chacma baboon
Examples
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Even within that subspecies, two or three forms can be distinguished: the Cape chacma, the gray-footed chacma, and perhaps the Ruacana chacma.
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Friends and colleagues, perhaps secretly envious, have predicted that as a city boy and literature professor, I would feel out of place among these orphaned chacma baboons.
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As increasing numbers of injured or abused chacma baboons, mostly orphaned babies, were brought in, the center began to specialize.
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Even within that subspecies, two or three forms can be distinguished: the Cape chacma, the gray-footed chacma, and perhaps the Ruacana chacma.
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Even within that subspecies, two or three forms can be distinguished: the Cape chacma, the gray-footed chacma, and perhaps the Ruacana chacma.
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Stefan, about one year old in the photograph on the opposite page, was born within a chacma baboon troop made up of animals rescued by the Centre for Animal Rehabilitation and Education (C.A.R.E.).
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By one reckoning, all baboons belong to the same species, Papio hamadryas, and the chacma baboon, P. h. ursinus, is one of five subspecies.
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In South Africa, we saw a group of chacma baboons playing in the trees.
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The chacma baboon is known for its strong social bonds within its troop.
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During our safari, we encountered a chacma baboon foraging for food near the road.
Synonyms
A large grey monkey from southern and eastern Africa with a long dog-like nose
A large grey baboon that lives in southern and eastern Africa
Compounds
- South African
A large grey monkey from southern and eastern Africa with a long dog-like nose
Surface Forms
Etymology
Chacma comes from a South African language and reached English through Afrikaans as the local name for the large 'baboon' found there. So, chacma now means that big, greyish baboon species.
