Baboons choose sleeping sites in the following descending order of preference: 1) steep cliff faces and caves, 2) taller emerging trees in continuous forests, 3) the canopy of contiguous forest without emerging trees, and 4) open wood- land trees.

How does a baboon sleep?

Baboons are diurnal and terrestrial, but sleep in trees, or on high cliffs or rocks at night, away from predators. They are found in open savannas and woodlands across Africa.

How do baboons sleep at night?

Baboons regularly sleep on cliff faces and in trees at night, ostensibly to avoid such predators. Despite retreating to such "refuges," baboons are most often killed by leopards at or near their sleeping sites.