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The animal on the cover of Embedding Perl in HTML with Mason is a Hamadryas (Arabian) baboon. This species inhabits the dry plains and rocky hills of northern Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. Though their primary diet consists of roots, seeds, and fruit, Hamadryas baboons also eat insects and small animals, including other monkeys. They travel and forage in bands of 50 to 100 during the day and gather in troops as large as 750 to sleep on steep-sided cliffs during the night. All adults have long, dense, silky fur that is gray in males and brownish in females. Mature males weigh an average of 45 pounds and have a silver cape or mane over the head, neck, and shoulders. Females are considerably smaller and have no mane.

Arabian baboons live in a highly developed social order based on harem groups-a single adult male is accompanied by up to four females and their offspring. Males control their family by brute force, often biting females on the nape of the neck. Their powerful canines are also bared to threaten predators, which include leopards, jackals, hyenas, cheetahs, and lions. When facing an attack, they may yawn, slap their hands and feet, scream, and alert other baboons with a dog-like bark. They are fierce combatants, often ...