Dire Baboons

Basic Information

Biological Traits

Bite Force: 1300 PSI (pounds per square inch)

running speed 25 MPH

Dietary Needs and Habits

A very omnivore species eating both vegetation and meat.

Most of their diet is vegetarian eating fruit, leaves, roots, Dire Baboons also enjoy meat. A large group of dire baboons will form hunting mobs to hunt for their troops. The mobs will use their numbers to overpower larger animals or groups of animals to gather food or shiny objects that caught the mobs' eye.


Dire Baboons are opportunistic hunters if the troop has grown big and bold enough a mob will form and attack human settlements. A dire baboon mob attack can wipe out an entire settlement the mob killing and eating everyone leaving the settlement empty. How ever a troop of Dire Baboons can be bribed not to attack by leaving out food and shiny objects.

Additional Information

Social Structure

Like other primates Dire Baboons live in troops or mobs of a few dozen to up to three hundred that are led by the males that are the biggest and have the biggest and shiniest objects. In large troops of dire baboons, the males will gather in hunting and raiding mobs that will band together to take down prey for the rest of the troop or raid other baboon troops or occasionally human settlements. Dire baboon's mobs will attack settlements to still food, livestock and more it is not unheard of that a dire baboon hunting mob to wipe out a settlement eating all the settlers. To stop this many small or isolated settlements will leave food and shiny objects as a bribe to not attack the settlement.


The leaders of dire baboon troops are the biggest and strongest males, the alpha baboon will gather a hoard of shiny objects to show their status in the troop and harems of females to breed with.

Average Intelligence

Average Intelligence is above that of an average wild ape knowing how to use and make simple tools and weapons out of rock, wood and bone.
Dire Baboons can be bribed not to attack with food or shiny objects but well a Dire baboon can be bribe not to attack you they do not have the intelligence to understand an objects monetary value. For example, one will probably not know that a bar of gold has more value than a hunk of scrap metal. Dire baboons will most likely just judge on how big and shiny the object is.

Scientific Name

primate / Cercopithecidea

Lifespan

35 -45 years

Average Height

5.1 Ft Females 6.2 FT Males