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Someone in help desk brought up the fact the the collective noun can be congress. This article says that it is actually a joke. Here is the wiktionary link: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/congress Should we look at a few other dictionaries and possibly edit the article? I think we should ask for consensus on this.-- Canoe1967 ( talk) 22:52, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
I edited it out of wiktionary and left a note on the talk page of the editor that added it.-- Canoe1967 ( talk) 00:00, 26 May 2012 (UTC)
'Troop of baboons' is most common usage, but 'reliable sources' use 'congress of baboons.' A books.Google.com search for "congress of baboons" turns up: "Forum: a journal for the teacher of English outside the United States, Volumes 37-40" - United States Information Agency, 1999, p. 46 "Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior: R-Z", Marc Bekoff, Greenwood Press, 2004, p. 1013 (see wiki pg for Greenwood Publishing Group - it's a decades-old educational publisher, middle school thru university) Other non-fiction, including educational, books are in the search results using 'congress of baboons' seriously. The Oxford English Dictionary, 2002 comes up #17 in the search, but there's no indication of the page it's on; no 'search inside' function. When I viewed the online version (access thru my U.), the 'baboon' page only refers to 'troop' not 'congress'. Gorkelobb ( talk) 00:54, 2 September 2012 (UTC) By: giomarc amazing — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.234.48.8 ( talk) 22:53, 12 May 2016 (UTC)
Congress of Baboons is acceptable. Thomkatt2020 ( talk) 00:16, 12 January 2022 (UTC)
The first sentence under the Behavior and ecology section, as follows, is misleading: “Baboons are able to acquire orthographic processing skills, which form part of the ability to read.[10]”.
Even if it’s factually correct its prominence as the first sentence in that section, separated from the following paragraphs, is grossly misleading. In it’s current context it could lead some readers to believe that baboons are just a step away from reading and writing.
Books and articles on paleoanthropology, human evolution and similar topics by experts like Ian Tattersall, Chris Stringer and others show that even anatomically modern Homo sapiens did not display evidence of abstract thinking or symbolic behavior until roughly 50,000 years ago. That’s the rough consensus of experts in those fields.
That sentence belongs in a sub-section, not featured where it is now, completely out of context. WB ( talk) 01:45, 3 November 2021 (UTC)
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A group of Baboons is also called a congress
Why does the word “monkey” to describe baboons appear nowhere? Primate is too broad a term. National Geographic refers to them as monkeys. Isn’t that accurate? Alexandermoir ( talk) 14:05, 9 June 2022 (UTC)
The article outlines common sources of food twice. The lists are for the most part the same, and seem redundant. Recommend deleting one. The sentence in question is below:
They are omnivorous: common sources of food are grasses, seeds, roots, leaves, bark, various fruits, insects, fish, shellfish, rodents, birds, vervet monkeys and small antelopes.
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Flamingojohnson ( talk • contribs) 10:33, 31 March 2023 (UTC)
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Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT ( talk) 15:10, 16 January 2022 (UTC)
Someone in help desk brought up the fact the the collective noun can be congress. This article says that it is actually a joke. Here is the wiktionary link: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/congress Should we look at a few other dictionaries and possibly edit the article? I think we should ask for consensus on this.-- Canoe1967 ( talk) 22:52, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
I edited it out of wiktionary and left a note on the talk page of the editor that added it.-- Canoe1967 ( talk) 00:00, 26 May 2012 (UTC)
'Troop of baboons' is most common usage, but 'reliable sources' use 'congress of baboons.' A books.Google.com search for "congress of baboons" turns up: "Forum: a journal for the teacher of English outside the United States, Volumes 37-40" - United States Information Agency, 1999, p. 46 "Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior: R-Z", Marc Bekoff, Greenwood Press, 2004, p. 1013 (see wiki pg for Greenwood Publishing Group - it's a decades-old educational publisher, middle school thru university) Other non-fiction, including educational, books are in the search results using 'congress of baboons' seriously. The Oxford English Dictionary, 2002 comes up #17 in the search, but there's no indication of the page it's on; no 'search inside' function. When I viewed the online version (access thru my U.), the 'baboon' page only refers to 'troop' not 'congress'. Gorkelobb ( talk) 00:54, 2 September 2012 (UTC) By: giomarc amazing — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.234.48.8 ( talk) 22:53, 12 May 2016 (UTC)
Congress of Baboons is acceptable. Thomkatt2020 ( talk) 00:16, 12 January 2022 (UTC)
The first sentence under the Behavior and ecology section, as follows, is misleading: “Baboons are able to acquire orthographic processing skills, which form part of the ability to read.[10]”.
Even if it’s factually correct its prominence as the first sentence in that section, separated from the following paragraphs, is grossly misleading. In it’s current context it could lead some readers to believe that baboons are just a step away from reading and writing.
Books and articles on paleoanthropology, human evolution and similar topics by experts like Ian Tattersall, Chris Stringer and others show that even anatomically modern Homo sapiens did not display evidence of abstract thinking or symbolic behavior until roughly 50,000 years ago. That’s the rough consensus of experts in those fields.
That sentence belongs in a sub-section, not featured where it is now, completely out of context. WB ( talk) 01:45, 3 November 2021 (UTC)
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Thomkatt2020 ( talk) 00:14, 12 January 2022 (UTC)
A group of Baboons is also called a congress
Why does the word “monkey” to describe baboons appear nowhere? Primate is too broad a term. National Geographic refers to them as monkeys. Isn’t that accurate? Alexandermoir ( talk) 14:05, 9 June 2022 (UTC)
The article outlines common sources of food twice. The lists are for the most part the same, and seem redundant. Recommend deleting one. The sentence in question is below:
They are omnivorous: common sources of food are grasses, seeds, roots, leaves, bark, various fruits, insects, fish, shellfish, rodents, birds, vervet monkeys and small antelopes.
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Flamingojohnson ( talk • contribs) 10:33, 31 March 2023 (UTC)