Got Baboon?

Have you ever tried entering a conversation between a group of friends and throwing out a word like "baboon"? It's really quite amusing. Everyone just kind of pauses and loses their train of thought.

But you know Hayley has been watching to much BBC Wildlife on YouTube when she starts drawing baboon-creatures. I was looking up references for the Secretary Bird (beautiful animal, by the way) for an art project, and there were just so many interesting related videos. One of them involved a baboon chasing flamingos, and the way it moved was just so dynamic and powerful.

So I have no name for this...whatever it is, but it lives in Africa-esque climates. It has influences from the secretary bird (the quill feathers on its face) and some sort of dog? I really have no idea.

Baboon-dog-bird © moi