#the gelada

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The Gelada Aka The Bleeding Heart Baboons, only found in the Ethiopian Highlands    

[alphynix]

Spectember 2024 #04: Forest Gelada

Someone who identified themself only as Pendrew asked for a "ruminant-like Old World Monkey":

After much of East Africa rifted off into a separate continent, shifting climate turned the alpine grasslands of what was once the Ethiopian Highlands into into warmer subtropical forests – and the highly terrestrial grass-eating geladas that inhabited the region adapted to new sources of food.

Yedenigelada pendrewsii is a large quadrupedal herbivorous monkey, about 1.5m tall at the shoulder (~5'). It has a specialized pseudoruminant digestive system with a three-chambered stomach, similar to that of camelids, and it occupies an ecological niche convergent with the ancient chalicotheres, selectively browsing on trees and shrubs while sitting upright and using its long clawed forelimbs to pull branches within reach. 

Unlike its highly social ancestors this species is mostly solitary, although during the breeding season groups of males come together in leks to compete for female attention. Displays consist of inflating large colorful throat pouches to make loud resonating calls, and flipping upper lips to bare teeth and gums.

[eskiworks]

Colored sketch of Seti, an anthro gelada baboon!

Posted using PostyBirb

[scobinha]

adventure time girls 🌳

[spinus-pinus]

Gelada Theropithecus gelada

3/5/2023 San Diego Zoo, California

[snototter]

A gelada baboon, or bleeding-heart monkey (Theropithecus gelada) shows off its large canines in Rotterdam Zoo, The Netherlands.

by safi kok

[jeepers-sheepers]

AF attack for @hydraheads !!

[biiguru]

I've been very stressed lately, so I figured I'd have some fun & draw the entire Chaos Family's Animalities. (From left to right: Meat, Daeva, Darrius, Eriyen, Havik, Syloi & Undertow.)

[disordercinema]

People seem to forget a very important fact that is: God is Brazilian, it's just how it is

[curitibacitybrazil]

Curitiba - Brazil 🇧🇷

[psikonauti]

The Grassland Geladas

Photographed by Marco Gaiotti

[aerkame]

I have issues with committing to long fanfictions, but I have a feeling that the one I'm working on will be good. I say so because I'm drawing fanart of it already lmao.

On a side note, geladas are super cool. I love lions so obviously the reader is going to be based on a gelada so I have an excuse to make them fluffy with big ol' saber fangs and a mane. >:p

Also ignore the quality, it's late and I wanted to draw while in bed okay?

ALSO, I did double check, and it appears both males and females will grow 'manes' and have fangs. Females don't really have fur that's as long as the male's or good fangs, but it's good enough. Meaning the reader can have a mane regardless of gender. So immersion shouldn't be broken. (I prefer making x readers immersive for everyone)

It's giving..."I is fierce!"

Cutoff text: Large arm and shoulder tuft, Big teef (sabertooth-like), reverse crescent blade chest tuft.

Context (SPOILERS)

Reader gets turned into a small monkey either by accident or on purpose. Inspired from the design of the monkeys in Uproar in Heaven and The Lotus Lantern (the little monkey seen in the movie). Chaos ensues. Also reader gets mistaken for being a lion cub A LOT.

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[hydraheads]

[sitting-on-me-bum]

The Grassland Geladas

Two gelada monkeys and a baby sit in Ethiopia’s Simien Mountains, with rain clouds looming in the background.

by Marco Gaiotti

Wildlife Photographer of the Year People’s Choice Award

[aerkames-artbook]

Sweepy baby

I got bored waiting for my assignment to be graded so I sketched a lil' gelada reader.