The Wild 5: Baboon - 2022 Uncirculated Cupro Nickel Coin $1 Coin - SLE

Sub-Saharan Africa provides the most incredible opportunities for wildlife sightings, with an extremely varied mixture of animals across the continent. With such diversity of wildlife, Africa holds the titles for the biggest animals, the most dangerous animals, the fastest animals, the strongest animals, the most elusive animals, and so on. Therefore, it seems only right to depict some more of these iconic animals on a brand new five-coin series. Baboons are noisy and sociable primates who tend to live in groups of around 50 individuals, although groups of up to 300 are not unknown. This particular primate has a range of different vocalisations for communicating with each other, with over 30 distinct vocalisations including grunts and screams which are used in addition to a plethora of non-vocal gestures such as shrugging and lip-smacking. They exhibit many behavioural traits that are considered to be ‘human-like’ and have co-existed with human ancestors for many millions of years. The oldest baboon fossil is a skull found in South Africa that is thought to be two million years old.