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Prospect Park Zoo Baby Baboons Need Names!

Contest Will Decide Names For Youngsters

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Prospect Park is holding a contest to name the latest additions to their primate collection -- two new baby baboons. (Photo: Julie Larsen Maher © WCS)

Prospect Park is holding a contest to name the latest additions to their primate collection — two new baby baboons. (Photo: Julie Larsen Maher © WCS)

NEW YORK (CBS 2) – Get out your baby name books, New York City.

The Prospect Park Zoo is welcoming two new baboons to their facilities and is soliciting name suggestions for the two male babies.

The new Hamadryas baboons are making their public debut on Friday.

Zoo director Denise McClean said staffers are beyond excited to greet the new additions, who were born in July.

“This is very exciting because these are the zoo’s first Hamadryas baboon births in six years and the first time we have had two infants at the same time,” she said. “Both mothers and babies are doing very well and are one big happy troop.”

Nominations for will be accepted for a period of about three weeks, starting on Tuesday and with a deadline of Sept. 22.

For more information on the baboons or the name contest, click here.

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Kelly Taylor

sreća and klinac in croatian.
which means luck and kid

August 27, 2010 at 3:02 pm

yogijac

mr. bojangles and dylan

August 27, 2010 at 2:38 pm

valerie

LOL! I love Jon and Kate! Couple of baboons that those two are!

August 27, 2010 at 2:36 pm

Kellz

Name’em ROSCOE and WILLIE….OH YEAH…dat sounds groovy!

August 27, 2010 at 1:31 pm

RandomThoughts

Jon and Kate

August 27, 2010 at 1:23 pm

helen

Hoops & YoYo

August 27, 2010 at 12:49 pm

mike debo

Babbs and Boone

August 27, 2010 at 12:26 pm

cnolan

you should name them ABBADOO and BABADOO

August 27, 2010 at 11:05 am

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