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Genus Ceratogyrus

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Old World 6 species

Southern African baboons with a bony horn growing out of the carapace, which is not a decoration but a genuine anatomical oddity nobody has fully explained. C. marshalli has the tall straight one. C. darlingi has a shorter hooked version.

Old world, so no urticating hairs and a real threat display instead. They are fossorial, they web their burrow entrances into a dense mat, and they are fast when they choose to be. Not aggressive so much as absolutely unwilling to be handled.

Prices here are moderate and stable because South African and European breeders produce them reliably. The horn is the marketing, which means juveniles before the horn develops sell at a discount to visibly horned subadults even though they are the same animal a few molts apart.

Species
6
Live Listings
74
Family Market Index
$41
median market price
Entry Price
$19
Ceratogyrus brachycephalus
Ubiquitous
Lesser Horned Baboon
10 live listings · from $34 mkt $65
Ceratogyrus darlingi
Ubiquitous
Rear Horned Baboon
33 live listings · from $19 mkt $42
Ceratogyrus marshalli
Ubiquitous
Great Horned Baboon
▲ HEATING
12 live listings · from $22 mkt $40
Ceratogyrus meridionalis
Ubiquitous
Zimbabwe Grey Baboon
▲ HEATING
12 live listings · from $25 mkt $40
Ceratogyrus sanderi
Ubiquitous
Namibian Horned Baboon
7 live listings · from $25 mkt $45
Ceratogyrus sp. 'Mozambique'
Legendary
Mozambique
0 live listings · from $38 mkt $38